I had a similar problem and fixed it by changing the download region.
Selected New York as my default region and got better down speeds.
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I changed from Portugal to Africa and i got 1.3MB/s
I'll try New York
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if you have a 20mbps connection your max download speed is 2mbps but since you are not getting 1.2mbps try changing your region download on steam settings
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I already changed it, but I keep stuck on 1.2MB/s
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Your ISP may be "throttling" your speeds.
Shitty companies do this all the time, cough Comcast cough
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ISP's really do that? Around here if your speed isn't the same as you ordered you can call them up and demand a fix. Of course some servers don't allow fast download speed but that's another story. Steam lets you download with very high speed (sometimes I get even 20mb/s) so I don't know where the problem lies for the OP.
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They have done so many times and by more than a couple of ISP's.
But this is in the USA, so the companies can "buy-off" the elected officials.
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It happens also here in Italy.. and I bet in many other places too.
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I have comcast at 50mbps, and I get a 5.5mb/s download. 1mbps = 0.125mb/s which would make mine around 6.25 total bandwidth and it may not be using the full amount because of QoS (quality of service- reserves a small amount of b/w for the system to use) or my ISP slightly throttling my connection or there's just a high amount of traffic using the service
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The lack of proper capitalization and acronym usage in this thread is driving me nuts.
There's a difference between megabytes (MB) and megabits (Mb or mb). And the slash ("/") stands for "per."
Therefore, mbps = mb/s but mbps != MB/s.
I believe the OP intended to say he has 20 Mbps but only downloads at 1.2 MB/s (he got the latter part right).
Also, I got 99 problems but download speed ain't one:
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Make sure your HDD is also fast enough. Sometimes Steam caps the download speed because it isn't able to write to the HDD fast enough. Already experienced that
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Most newer( 8 years old and newer) hard drives can write data at a sustained rate of 40MB/s, which is well above th OP's d/l rate.
If your drive craps out you are doing some multi-tasking and having I/O problems
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Yes but you can't assume he is using a newer hdd. The internet connection I used was really fast...steam delayed the download to write to hdd. The exact message was "BUSY WRITING TO DISC", you may want to google that.
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My internet speed is 35 KB/s, steam does 40 KB/s.
goml.
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Y have 10 mbps Internet but my max download speed is of 1.2 mbps, so I'm happy when downloading games below 10 Gb of size :D
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I have 20MB/s Internet speed but while downloading something on Steam I can't past 1.2MB/s...
My friend has 15MB/s Internet speed and can download at 2.0MB/s
What can I do to increase my Steam download speed? :
sorry for bad english
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