Hello!

So I wanted to talk about steam download speed. IT SUX! I mean, alright, there was some better speed some time ago (like year or something) but today I download games for ages - with 300kbsec speed. And it's kinda weird, since usually it was 1mb/sec (as I said a year ago). I doubt it's about my provider or whatever, since I download games from origin with 6mbsec speed, and other stuff thru different websites with atleast 3mbsec.

Just to compare -

steam - 300kb/sec

origin - 6mb/sec

other websites/torrents - 3-4mb/sec

Any idea what can be the problem of such low dwnld speed exactly in steam?

1 decade ago*

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View>Settings>Downloads>Download Region

Change that to your country or the nearest.

1 decade ago
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Ah right I forgot to mention it. I already tried like my country and other countries nearby and like 15 options. Max speed I got is 300-500kb/sec

1 decade ago
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You may have to add steam to the exception list in your firewall!
I had problems when I switched to Comodo...

1 decade ago
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Shouldn't it be completely blocked from any downloading coz of firewall? Well, I'm gonna try it now anyway. Thanks

1 decade ago
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My max speed is 180 kb/s and I thought that was fast ._.

1 decade ago
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That's some hard times you are having I guess :)

1 decade ago
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Yeah, it sucks but you gotta be thankful with you have right? Better that than none at all :)

1 decade ago
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Don't worry, I have approximately the same download speed. :)

1 decade ago
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True, true

1 decade ago
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Check your download location, it may not be at the nearest server to you. Also, a while ago I couldn't download anything because the download speed was really slow... But it turned out it was an issue with my hard drive. But if you can download without any problem on Origin, you shouldn't worry about that.

1 decade ago
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Not steam the problem is on your end since I was downloading at 1mb/sec without problem a while ago.

1 decade ago
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Hm, if it's on my end, can it be some closed ports or whatever? I just don't understand much in that ports-stuff

1 decade ago
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I think Origin's stats are fake, I downloaded Titanfall very fast but when I checked my folder's size, it differed from what it should have been

1 decade ago
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I agree, when I download something I get 1,4/ 1,6 MB/s but the "real" speed should be 850 Kb/s max!

1 decade ago
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Well, my origin speed was based exactly on downloading Titanfall. But in fact, it takes exactly 12gb as it did download

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First point out the obvious ones:
Steam->Settings->Downloads->Download Region
Steam->Settings->Downloads->Download Restrictions

Also, it could be a router setting, but it's inconvinient that it limits only Steams connection plus when there's nothing with a higher priority.

Now, If you can download from other sources with higher speed and the Steam & router settings are okay it seems like the problem ain't on your side.

1 decade ago
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Maybe because Russia also occupied Ukraine's Steam servers :P (OP is from Ukraine)

1 decade ago
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I tried russia, ukraine, poland, germany and like 10 more. Guess russia did not occupy those countries too :D

1 decade ago
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yet*

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ты же сам написал, что трабл только сегодня возник?
system maintenance видимо, поэтому и скорость такая :)

1 decade ago
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Не сегодня, уже месяца три-четыре как. Это было сравнение скорости год назад и сегодня (не в буквальном смысле).

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Closed 1 decade ago by Godf.