Steam Downloads too Slow.

[Bobbyat]

Hello. I'm not sure if this is the correct site to ask this question, but here it goes. My Steam download speed is far too low for what I should be getting. I'm not too knowledgeable when it comes to networking but from what I understand, I should be getting at least 6 MB/s on Steam downloads. Instead I get a maximum of around 800 KB/s. Suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

What does your ISP provide?

Remember that 1MB/s = 8Mb/s.

 

[unksol]

Your download speed is 6 megabits per second. ISPs do not rate in megaBYTES per second. 800KB/s = 6.4Mb/s. nothing is wrong you simply don't understand units of measurement or math.

Download at night when you are asleep

 

[icraft]

Yeah, remember the the Mb/MB thing. It's messed me up in the past.

 

[Bobbyat]

What does your ISP provide?

Remember that 1MB/s = 8Mb/s.

I believe that my isp provides 50 Mb/s. Sorry as I've said I'm not very tech savvy.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

OK. In that case, can you run a speedtest, and post it here?

I'm guessing that the steam servers are pretty heavily loaded, or your ISP isn't peered well.

 

[unksol]

then you are limited by the max download speed of the server. and you should not care

 

[Bobbyat]

OK. In that case, can you run a speedtest, and post it here?

I'm guessing that the steam servers are pretty heavily loaded, or your ISP isn't peered well.

The speed test tells me this: http/www.speedtest.net/my-result/3650363032
This is much lower than I expected and I may have to contact my Internet provider instead.

 

[ShadyHamster]

You could try changing the download region for steam in steam settings>downloads, every region change requires steam to be restarted so it might take some time to find a better server.
Make sure you have no download restrictions set as well.

 

[Bobbyat]

You could try changing the download region for steam in steam settings>downloads, every region change requires steam to be restarted so it might take some time to find a better server.
Make sure you have no download restrictions set as well.

I have tried this, changing it from Seattle to Miami to Hong Kong to Luxembourg, but still no luck. Thank you though.

 

[DelroyMonjo]

800k is damn good for a 6MB bandwidth provider.

 

[Bobbyat]

From my speedtest, I'm going to assume that the fault is on the Internet provider, I'm contacting them now. Thank you.