Steam downloads slow

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My friend on BT 900Mbps can download from steam at a steady 940Mpbs all day and night.

My Steam download speed is up and down like a yoyo.

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Whats the issue here? I have tried changing the download location between London and Manchester but there is no diff in speeds :frowning:

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It depends on the game that you are downloading. If the game is highly compressed (e.g it downloads 20GB but takes up 60-70GB) and your CPU and/or storage gets maxed out, the download is going to slow down as it can’t write the data fast enough.

I have the same as your above graph on my spare PC as it’s simply not fast enough while downloading some games, however my main gaming PC can download everything at a solid 250MB/s

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My 9700X is fast enough im sure. Me and my friend was downloading the same game.

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Check CPU usage while downloading, see if it maxes out. What kind of storage are you saving it to, HDD, Sata SSD or NVME drive?

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CPU was at about 15% usage.

I have 2 SSD’s one is Gen 3 and the other Gen 4. Both nvme

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Just started to dowload this, I think It’s doing OK. Hovering around 800mbps mark any my disk is hitting 1gbps. Whilst this is nowhere near the max speed for my Mac Mini M2 Pro drive, I feel I am somewhat limited by steam rather than the network as the Peak i see is 1.1Gbps. (On this test, I was using Manchester.)
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Downloaded CS2, hovers around the same on London Server

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Sadly, I get slower. Steam used to be ok when I first joined and then as the weeks went on it got slower and slower.

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What game is that, I will try that one. What server are you using too

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Prey (2017)