Steam Download Locations

Mr_Moose · 13 Jul 2013 at 16:40

So, how many out there actually check\change their download location?

after suffering <1Mb/s and constant drops for the past day waiting on BL2 DLC I decided to check it out.
Change it from UK - London to UK - Manchester and bang constant >7Mb/s

Hyburnate · 13 Jul 2013 at 16:43

I change between Manchester and London depending on the load on the server and if I'm getting poor download rates on the one I'm currently on.

utajoker · 13 Jul 2013 at 18:26

Haven't changed it and I pretty much always get 10.5-11.3mb/s

oldestgregg · 13 Jul 2013 at 18:54

I found changing it from London to Manchester upped it from 1.5 to 7.5mbps! Huge jump.

Mr_Moose · 13 Jul 2013 at 19:25

it's something I think I've looked at once but never really gave much notice to. glad I did now...

dreigns · 13 Jul 2013 at 19:52

havn't changed it in a year or 2 get 12meg normally unless its after 5pm and I download over 5gb then I get slowed

Jasseh · 13 Jul 2013 at 20:46

I'll try switching if it drops from 13 mb to 70 kb again lol

Mynight · 14 Jul 2013 at 09:44

May I ask what connections you have?

I've got virgins 50mb line and have yet to see any game go over 2.1mb download regardless of server.

MofoKilla · 14 Jul 2013 at 09:56

vm 100mb usually get 12-14mb/sec at busy times drops to around 8mb

niroe · 14 Jul 2013 at 09:58

I generally use London but if its a bit slow (sale season) I switch to Paris. Running 120MB Virgin and usually hit 12-13MB/sec downloading from Steam.

TheVoice · 14 Jul 2013 at 10:11

I have a slow connection so it makes little difference. I tend to use Manchester simply as it's closer to where I am.

Quite odd that the UK only gets two servers yet South Africa has something like six!

Jasseh · 14 Jul 2013 at 10:30

Mynight said:
May I ask what connections you have?

I've got virgins 50mb line and have yet to see any game go over 2.1mb download regardless of server.

I'm on VM 100MB (unless they've finished upgrading me to 120 already), normally get 12-14 MB/s downloads on Steam.

Mynight · 14 Jul 2013 at 11:37

Time for an upgrade then I think

Squink · 14 Jul 2013 at 17:10

A fine quality reminder. I've been watching BL2 downloading at speeds from 0 kb/s to 120kb/s. Changed the location to Manchester and it's up to 1-1.3mb/sec.

I might actually get to play the game tonight

Frxn · 14 Jul 2013 at 20:06

TheVoice said:
I have a slow connection so it makes little difference. I tend to use Manchester simply as it's closer to where I am.

Quite odd that the UK only gets two servers yet South Africa has something like six!

NZ has 8, they have a population of 4mil..

Fire_fly · 14 Jul 2013 at 20:13

Changed it from the default (London) to Manchester earlier today. I have found it make very little difference on my BT ADSL connection.

A2BDriver · 14 Jul 2013 at 21:21

I will ask this question here as it would have the same title as this thread haha

but my steam is randomly installing games when it updates to a drive that I haven't told it to, how do I go about stopping this happening?

pearce64 · 14 Jul 2013 at 22:56

not sure what impact changing makes to download speed I have mine set to Manchester.

Ciegeman · 15 Jul 2013 at 09:23

Hmm changed mine last night. Was getting around 1.5 and still getting that after changing to Manchester

Gooner Leroy · 15 Jul 2013 at 09:53

I've never thought of checking this before, I'll have to check it out later.

niroe said:
I generally use London but if its a bit slow (sale season) I switch to Paris. Running 120MB Virgin and usually hit 12-13MB/sec downloading from Steam.

Don't do that, your games will be in French!!