STEAM Download speeds as of late.....?

The UT3/free weekend is absolutely hammering the servers so that's to be expected really. Steam doesn't struggle with most new releases but a particularly popular free weekend deal seems to be a bit much for them.
 
Im on virgin media in nottingham area, 20mbit. and i almost always download at 2.0mb/s.

If i find it downloading slow, i just restart steam. Problem solved 9/10.
 
Steam downloads are always quite rubbish for me, 400-500 kb/sec :(. The Dutch servers always seem to be overloaded. I had trouble reaching 2kb/sec when empire tw demo was out and dow2...


Quite a disgrace really, we pay quite a bit more on average than you guys with the pound sterlings yet we get poorer servers.
 
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NeoVo said:
Im on virgin media in nottingham area, 20mbit. and i almost always download at 2.0mb/s.

If i find it downloading slow, i just restart steam. Problem solved 9/10.
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Yeah, tried that this morning, and it scrubbed my download progress so far. Was not amused :(
 
Ok, seems to be hit and miss with some of us having the same issue.

ISP = Virgin Media Broadband
O.S = Windows 7

Reflux, whats your O.S?
 
Virgin Media.

Steam's download speeds have lowered overall for me personally.

I've just put this down to Steam being busy recently, lots of updates and a few new releases.
 
Gimpymoo said:
Ok, seems to be hit and miss with some of us having the same issue.

ISP = Virgin Media Broadband
O.S = Windows 7

Reflux, whats your O.S?
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Vista x64 Ultimate.

I am now stuck at 99% with the message - 'download starting'.

:(:(:mad::mad:

Oh well, haven't paid for anything yet! :D
 
Im struggling to get above 200KB/s at the moment which isnt right.

Other sources allow me to fulfill my bandwith.

Going to try booting into Safe Mode with Networking, see what that yields.
 
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I think its just Virgin Media that sucks at downloading from Steam.. I only ever seem to get 200K off of Steam on a 20meg line. If I go into work I can download games at 800K on our 8meg line.. I hate VM! Their 20 meg service is annoying me atm, if it wasn't for the fact I live with a VM tech support guy and hence get the service for peanuts I'd be annoyed.
 
700KB/s + here for me on IDNet, early evening on Saturday :)

WHen I was on Virgin a year ago I did use to suffer some odd speeds downloading off Steam.
 
I'm on SKY 16meg broadband and STEAM always maxes my connection.

I think your problem lies with VM.

I used to be with VM a while ago. Constant throttling. Hate VM.
 
I'm using mt BT line now and steam is crawling along. Re-installed unreal 3 but there have been al ot of updates since I last played.

It's taken from 4pm today to get from 78% to 95% and now it's frozen with "download starting". I've tried changing host server and it made no difference.
 
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