STEAM Download speeds
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dezztroy




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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 19:52    Post subject: STEAM Download speeds
Anyone else getting pretty sub par speeds? I'm downloading from the swedish servers, and the highest it ever goes is 800 kb/s, and it sits at 400 on average. This is pretty bad, when my connection allows for 1400 kb/s. This only started happening a few weeks ago though, before that it was constantly going 1400.
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Neon
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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 19:54    Post subject: Re: STEAM Download speeds
dezztroy wrote:
Anyone else getting pretty sub par speeds? I'm downloading from the swedish servers, and the highest it ever goes is 800 kb/s, and it sits at 400 on average. This is pretty bad, when my connection allows for 1400 kb/s. This only started happening a few weeks ago though, before that it was constantly going 1400.


Was just going to post something similar... DLing Mass Effect now, and it's 300-400kb/s ? Confused
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PumpAction
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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 19:59    Post subject:
I bought a friend of mine CS:S as a gift and he downloaded with ~950kb/s . But I think it was limited because his notebook was ~15m from his router and there are several walls in-between Smile


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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 20:10    Post subject:
Up until day before yesterday I was getting line-max speeds (1.5MB/s) but the last two days of offers seem to have crippled speeds. Odd.
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sueil




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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 20:33    Post subject:
You guys know they are doing a big sale right now and tons of people are buying games and downloading them?
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JBeckman
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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 20:40    Post subject:
Indeed, though it might help to change the content server location (Steam program settings.) although I guess the entire server system is a bit over-loaded with this holiday sales thing going on.
(Should calm down soon though as it's nearly over.)
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PumpAction
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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 20:53    Post subject:
I wonder how much money valve makes with steam. This must be the most lucrative thing in gaming ever.


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Werelds
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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 20:54    Post subject:
Benelux seems to be fine, downloaded a bunch of games last week at 5-7 MB/s. Not the max of my connection, but pretty good nonetheless. Try changing location to Benelux?
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dezztroy




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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 21:09    Post subject:
sueil wrote:
You guys know they are doing a big sale right now and tons of people are buying games and downloading them?


As I said in my post, I've had this problem for weeks.

I've tried using Benelux servers, no difference.
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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 22:31    Post subject:
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tainted4ever
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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 23:01    Post subject:
If you're West Coast USA try changing location to Japan Smile


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Ankh




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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 23:01    Post subject:
my max is like 10mb/s...and I hardly ever go over 1mb/sec on steam Sad


shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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bishman82




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PostPosted: Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 23:27    Post subject:
Go this the other day right in the middle of the steam sale, speeds were about 150-200kb/s on the UK server, this was after i switched to Germany.

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chiv




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PostPosted: Mon, 4th Jan 2010 05:48    Post subject:
ahahahah fuck you all, seriously.

in my fucking shithole of a country, 100kbs is really good, 200+ is fucking golden Very Happy


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LeoNatan
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th Jan 2010 05:59    Post subject:
Fucking Europeans!
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trucane




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PostPosted: Mon, 4th Jan 2010 08:34    Post subject:
Well the servers has been really hammered the last few days a friend to me couldn't even start one of his downloads. Personally I bought two games during the sale and both were downloaded with around 500-1400kb/s. Normally I can get up to around 7-8 sometimes 9 MB/s
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Kyorisu




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PostPosted: Mon, 4th Jan 2010 09:24    Post subject:
Pester your ISP into setting up an unfiltered mirror.
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Werelds
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PostPosted: Mon, 4th Jan 2010 09:57    Post subject:
Before the holiday sale the max I ever got was 9 MB/s; still not the max of my connection (120/10, wanna share Leo? A lot of stuff out there can't handle 120, good thing there's Usenet to abuse <3), but it shows that they do have quite a lot of bandwidth available.

Your connection fine other than this? Got firewall? Router? Loads of things that can slow your download speed on Steam. Also, playing Steam games doesn't help the downloading Wink
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SilverBlue




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PostPosted: Mon, 4th Jan 2010 10:18    Post subject:
On my end the speed goes up and down constantly. Up to the cap and down to around 30ish KB.
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