Unimatrix Xero Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 OK so ive brought shift and dirt2 off steam, and no matter what server i lock onto i only pull around 60kbs, when i first run steam, i hit over 250kbs but then it slows down to 60kbs average, Ive tried deleting clientreg.blob ive tried forwarding my ports, and selecting different download servers, but nothing works, anyone got any ideas? my line speed isnt even capped either thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted December 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2009 It's possible that their servers are getting hammered, but that shouldn't be an issue with a simple download region switch. I'd try leave it on over night or something. Maybe it'll pickup speed. If that doesn't work, then try it again in a couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted December 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2009 As Anaron has said, it may be that their servers are getting hammered. I have a 10Mb/s connection and I was getting between 150KB/s and 1.1MB/s from the games I downloaded from Steam last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Spork) Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 (edited) OK so ive brought shift and dirt2 off steam, and no matter what server i lock onto i only pull around 60kbs, when i first run steam, i hit over 250kbs but then it slows down to 60kbs average,Ive tried deleting clientreg.blob ive tried forwarding my ports, and selecting different download servers, but nothing works, anyone got any ideas? my line speed isnt even capped either thanks <Snipped> everytime i download from steam its been fast Edited December 5, 2009 by Anaron Unnecessary comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Observer Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 <Snipped>everytime i download from steam its been fast yea same happens here for me too, long and slow downloads, everyone i know in my area and around NZ, can get crap download speeds, nothing much we can do about it! BTW not a very helpful post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unimatrix Xero Posted December 5, 2009 Author Share Posted December 5, 2009 ok i'll say it another way then Ive tried France, Ireland, UK, Denmark, even Spain, and Germany, and all have the same speeds just tied NY and same speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted December 5, 2009 Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2009 What I meant to say was "it shouldn't have been an issue if you simply changed the download region". Clearly, that didn't work for you. I don't know what else to suggest. Perhaps you'll have better luck here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperKid Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Iv'e had this issue before with steam servers in the UK, they are poor in the UK, people i speak to in the US don't seem to have problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereopixels Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Iv'e had this issue before with steam servers in the UK, they are poor in the UK, people i speak to in the US don't seem to have problems. This seems to be true - I've got a 50mb connection and no matter when or what I download from Steam, it always downloads somewhere between 100-150KBps, but rarely any faster, and if it does go faster, it's for very brief periods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted December 6, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted December 6, 2009 If you're in the UK, switch to Irish servers if you're getting poor download speeds. I get ~900KB/s usually through Steam. Which is very, very good considering. Also I've found (Or maybe It's just me) the download speeds are more reliable if you double click the game and let it download on it's own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead.cell Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Iv'e had this issue before with steam servers in the UK, they are poor in the UK, people i speak to in the US don't seem to have problems. Yeah, I usually hit my cap, which is at roughly 375KB/s or so. :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmatic Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 dunno what ISP you use, but if its all the Steam servers you try are slow, maybe theyre throttling Steam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyLarry Veteran Posted December 6, 2009 Veteran Share Posted December 6, 2009 Just out of curiosity, have you tried changing your connection speed in Steam itself? I know when you first launch Steam it asks you a few questions, and one of them is what is your download speed, and I have actually found changing that number does actually have an affect on what speeds you will get. So try changing that a few speeds up and down and see if that makes any difference. It very well might, and as crazy as this sounds, I think you can actually set it to high and it might not work properly as a result. With that said, Steam provides by far the slowest downloads on my comp. When I connect to my Newsgroup server, I get almost 3 times the speeds I can achieve with Steam. Newsgroup server I get 3.6 MBps. With Steam I have never seen it go over 1.2 MBps, and that is during total "off-time" for Steam, meaning no major releases, not downloading a new release, etc. I just think Valve definitely limits your download speed somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udedenkz Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 0.5 - 0.79 megabytes per second from a fast public network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerxes Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 As Anaron said probably just the servers getting hammered. I actually get really good download speeds from Steam and since my ISP runs some of the content servers down under, my Steam downloads don't always get added to my usage cap :) (but not all, since Steam chooses the best server to download for you, sometimes it doesn't pick one run by my ISP but 90% of the time it does). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unimatrix Xero Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 my download selection box is set to 10mb, and Ireland didnt help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted December 6, 2009 Veteran Share Posted December 6, 2009 It must be routing through a slow server in the UK/Ireland region. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WastedJoker Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Steam has been fast as usual for me - getting my max download speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViZioN Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 dunno what ISP you use, but if its all the Steam servers you try are slow, maybe theyre throttling Steam? I don't think that's the issue. I'm on the same ISP and I haven't had any issues with Steam downloads. That being said, I haven't downloaded anything substantial recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xilo Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 In US here. Regularly get around 1.5-2.0MB/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WastedJoker Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Seems to be ok for me. Still having problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandor Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 downloaded COD4 a few days ago and was getting 350KB/sec which is about right. (4mbit connection) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 I rarely have any problems with Steam, usually maxes out at about 2 MB/s but it always goes down to some pathetic sub-500 KB/s whenever it goes above 90% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unimatrix Xero Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 well Dirt2 has finished so im dont know LOL i wont be buying anymore games off steam for a while now due to lack of funds + theres nothing decent out now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diabolii Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 i get over 10mbits down consistently have you checked your steam settings, i once had an issue with it being slow and i had 56k set in connection settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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