Slow Steam downloads with fast internet connection?

[RipGroove]

My connection speed (usually 545-560Mbps)

Steam download speed (can be anywhere between 10Mbps & 200Mbps)

Both measured in Mbps, both on the same PC with wired connection.

Already checked my location server setting, made sure there are no bandwidth limits set and also cleared my download cache on Steam.

Any ideas?

 

[RipGroove]

I always just go through the different regions, for example I was downloading yesterday and London and Manchester both gave me about 10mb, Paris gave me 70mb, Frankfurt gave me 90-110mb, but Madrid gave me 493mb.

I'll try that then, nice one.

 

[RipGroove]

Check your CPU usage. An older CPU can bottleneck the download due to how it unpacks on the fly.

Will do, thanks.

 

[RipGroove]

Disk speed can make a difference too, if you are installing to a mechanical drive that's fairly full and/or fragmented then it might not be able to handle 60MB/sec write. You'd likely see that issue with other download sources too however.

Thanks but my Steam Library is on an NVME M.2 drive so should be ok.

 

[RipGroove]

I only ever get 10% from steam, in comparison to what a speed test says my line can do

Weird.

 

[RipGroove]

I'm pretty sure I've seen high 400's before when downloading from Steam but lately it's gone slow. Origin is the worst though, it's always slow no matter how fast my connection is.

 

[RipGroove]

I'll try different locations this afternoon when I get home.