Downloading steam is slow, limited to about 1.1 megabits per second.
Downloading steam is slow, limited to about 1.1 megabits per second.
Ever since I plugged an ethernet line into my laptop, Steam speeds are stuck at 1.1 Mbps and can drop down to 500 kbps. Even without the cable, my download speed stays the same. This is only happening with Steam. My cache has been cleared, I tried switching regions, and the cable went through a normal Wi-Fi router/amplifier. Please help!
Do you get a cool, free game? It's a popular one by some chance. But sometimes it takes long to load after some pics come through and then we can play.
Surely, I was downloading an old Xbox game called Thief. The first part went fine but after plugging in the ethernet cable it has been stuck at 1.1/1.2. It is also slow with other downloads on Steam like an Apex Legends update. It does not let me post a picture.
Speedtest measures in bits per second, while Steam uses bytes per second. The two numbers are basically the same, so they match up perfectly when you look at the math, even though one is bigger than the other because there are more bits in a byte. Your results are fine; it's just that we used different units to compare them.
So what's going on here? It just started acting weird and slow down way too fast. Used to take 10 minutes for 2 gigabytes of data, now it takes over two hours. I don't think my internet is actually that bad. Also, other apps like Uplay or Epic Games Launcher work fine, so this is something specific. Even if the numbers look different from before, I just want to know why my download speed has suddenly dropped from okay all the way down to terrible.
Check out reference post number 3 saying the system won't let you share pictures. Instead of posting on Imgur, try using a different internet connection like an Ethernet cable to fix it faster.
It might have actually got slower but what you are describing is one of the most common question we see here which is why I suggested it. Just be very sure you post the proper units. You can somehow change steam to show mbits and if you only get 1.1mbits and your internet is 8 mbits then you have a problem. Note when you do the math a 8mbit connection will allow you to download about 3.6gbyte of data in 1 hour but this does not include about 10-15% overhead. So it is taking far longer than it should to download 2gbyte. Here is your big problem. If it is really only steam then the ISP will correctly say it is not their problem. It is even harder because there is some so called "gamer" QoS software that you might have installed that will mess up downloads but let say speedtest run fine. The issue here is it should affect more than just steam. Steam for me does very strange stuff. It can on some games download at extremely fast speeds and on other is runs very slow. It also tends to download and then stall out maybe unpacking files or something and then start downloading again. Maybe there is something set wrong in the steam app. You can artificially limit the download rate to a lower value.
Thanks for everyone's help, I'm going to reach out to my internet provider to see what we can do. I'll share more details soon.