Very slow downloads on Steam
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Hello,
I just tried to download Source Filmmaker on Steam, but the download is super slow, almost completely stopped.
I can reach a maximum speed of 7mb/s right now, but I'm often around 2/3 mb/s or even 900 kb/s.
Yet my connection is about 290/300 mb/s for download and around 100/110 for upload, with latency between 1 and 2 ms.
Do you think the problem could be on my end or is it the Steam servers?
And if the problem comes from Steam, I would just like to know if it's because the Steam servers are low quality or if they are just overloaded? But being overloaded at 2:00 AM is quite surprising.
I just tried to download Source Filmmaker on Steam, but the download is super slow, almost completely stopped.
I can reach a maximum speed of 7mb/s right now, but I'm often around 2/3 mb/s or even 900 kb/s.
Yet my connection is about 290/300 mb/s for download and around 100/110 for upload, with latency between 1 and 2 ms.
Do you think the problem could be on my end or is it the Steam servers?
And if the problem comes from Steam, I would just like to know if it's because the Steam servers are low quality or if they are just overloaded? But being overloaded at 2:00 AM is quite surprising.
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Hello,
Several factors can be at play.
If you are already a customer of Orange... running a "speed" test on an Orange server is a bit "easy" to get good results; you should test with other servers.
Finally, it's worth noting that Steam has pipes of varying sizes with different operators, and if the pipe is full/saturated, customers will experience very poor speeds to/from Steam, especially when everyone has fiber.
So, I wouldn't be surprised if the problem comes from "Steam," especially if the speed tests remain consistent and are similar for "direct" downloads.
You can, for example, download this file: http://ping.online.net/1000Mo.dat
And see how long it takes and what average speed it downloads at through your browser to find out.
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~ Knowing how to listen means possessing, besides one's own, the brains of others... said Leonardo da Vinci.
Several factors can be at play.
If you are already a customer of Orange... running a "speed" test on an Orange server is a bit "easy" to get good results; you should test with other servers.
Finally, it's worth noting that Steam has pipes of varying sizes with different operators, and if the pipe is full/saturated, customers will experience very poor speeds to/from Steam, especially when everyone has fiber.
So, I wouldn't be surprised if the problem comes from "Steam," especially if the speed tests remain consistent and are similar for "direct" downloads.
You can, for example, download this file: http://ping.online.net/1000Mo.dat
And see how long it takes and what average speed it downloads at through your browser to find out.
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~ Knowing how to listen means possessing, besides one's own, the brains of others... said Leonardo da Vinci.
140 mb/s download in Tokyo but with insane ping
and about the same result as with Orange but with Bouygues this time
so I think it's really Steam that's the problem
Basically, the speed in Mb/s needs to be divided by 8 to get the download speed in MB/s
According to the speed test above, the approximate download speed in MB is
293.7 / 8 = about 36.7 MB/s normally.
Just to avoid confusion ;)
Have a good evening!