steam downloading very very slowly.

Zip · 3 Jul 2011 at 09:47

Is this because of the summer sale? The fastest i've got was 125kb/s but its an average of about 15kb/s-25kb/s.

Its taken 6-7 hours just to download 900mb!

What's causing this?

I'm downloading COD: black ops if that helps.

Bennehmaru · 3 Jul 2011 at 09:56

The summer sale will kill steams bandwidth, so yeah it's probably because of that.

IdiotCoder · 3 Jul 2011 at 09:58

I've been downloading slower than usual... but not quite as slow as you say!

Dudderz123456 · 3 Jul 2011 at 10:23

Yeah my download speeds were extremely slow yesterday, but have recovered today

(until the new sale is started...)

SixTwoSix · 3 Jul 2011 at 10:33

Try changing to random countries, i only had 2.1mb/s...changed to finland, got my full 6.2mb/s

chaparral · 3 Jul 2011 at 10:55

It took a while but i downloaded a 18GB game from steam lastnight..

Sleepery · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:13

Change to a country where it's currently 5am, that always does it for me.

http://www.daylightmap.com/index.php

Zip · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:15

SixTwoSix said:
Try changing to random countries, i only had 2.1mb/s...changed to finland, got my full 6.2mb/s

It must be terrible only being able to download at 2.1mb/s!

Edit: Worked Brilliantly!

Went straight up to 350kb/s After i selected Toronto as the location :cool:

Edit: DRopped back to 65kb/s

physichull · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:26

chaparral said:
It took a while but i downloaded a 18GB game from steam lastnight..

Shogun 2 perhaps?

Mine is still downloading!!! Steam is working at max capacity for me, its just my slow internet!

chaparral · 3 Jul 2011 at 13:34

physichull said:
Shogun 2 perhaps?

Good guess

Danny091 · 3 Jul 2011 at 13:36

Try Paris - france

Seems to be working for me. 719Kb/s (Which is as fast as my connection will allow).

Rroff · 3 Jul 2011 at 13:41

I've had this lately - even before the steam sales started - caught it bottoming out at 21KB/s

changed content server and it picked up - back to a constant 10Mb/s - but I seem to need to change them quite often now to get decent speeds... gonna suck if this becomes the norm.

DJ_Martin · 3 Jul 2011 at 13:41

All of you moving to other countries seems to have helped. I'm back to full speed

Bleek · 3 Jul 2011 at 13:42

I downloaded Borderlands from the Netherlands server at around 1.2MB/s on a 20mbit line. Not bad.

Zip · 4 Jul 2011 at 11:24

Day 3 and still down loading this ****ing game :mad:

Gonna be 80 years old before i get to play it!

Sitting in the 20s still

Murray · 4 Jul 2011 at 11:39

Im using UK-Manchester and getting full speed.

pgi947 · 4 Jul 2011 at 12:42

I was using UK-Manchester yesterday, it was only giving me an average of 315Kb/s from a max of 700Kb/s. Portal 2 (10gb) should have taken about 5 hours, instead took closer to 12. The same happened with last years summer steam sale.

The region change SOMETIMES works for me, but not often, maybe 2 out of 10 times. There used to be a way on steam to show server loads for all regions, I don't know if this is still available? Using that method I always found the Ukraine and Iceland/Greenland servers to be at low load all day everyday...

Edit: The server status page is still up here: http://steampowered.com/status/content_servers.html - I'm not too sure what the [filtered] servers are for?