Thanks, tried a few... Ended up reinstalling Steam and... ~32 MB/s.
I really don't wanna contact Steam Support but I might have to...
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In the Download settings, do you have "Limit bandwith" checked or "Throttle downloads while streaming"?
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What CPU do you have? Steam downloads are actually very heavy on the CPU, so check CPU usage in task manager while you download. When I had a 4 core i5, Steam would max at around 30 MB/s with 100% CPU utilization.
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Its an old i5-4670K and I was actually wondering if that could be the problem but it seems to be hovering around 66% utilization.
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Your CPU is just a bit better than what I had (i5 3570k), so it's definitively the CPU. The moment I upgraded to a 5900x Steam was able to download at >100 MB/s.
66% CPU usage is actually quite a lot, it's easy one core is hitting 100%.
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for my personal experience,via azure cloud machine,ms store can reach also 530\1000Mbps download while steam instead 115\230Mbps download same game (grounded).
this said if can make you feel better at my local machine i download at 2Mbps from both when i'm lucky hahaha 🤣
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Sounds like your ISP has a cap for steam. However, if your country has net neutrality laws, that's probably not it.
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Your memory drive that you are downloading games to might be a bottleneck in terms of read/write speed and shown as disk usage on the Steam download page.
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Does Steam have a cap on DL speeds? My avg. DL speed on Steam is around 32 MB/s.
32 (megabytes / second) = 256 Mbps (is what the www tells me)
I've tried changing DL location and clearing the download cache on Steam but to no avail.
Tested on EPIC where the DL speed capped out at 115 MB/s.
BTW I'm really bored...
Edit: Solved ... ?
I just tested again and ye... One of the cores is hitting 100%.
I made this thread just before the world went to shite, guess I should have upgraded back then...
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