Steam download speeds

koooowweeee said:
do i not watch this in a min its happening now

cant even upload a image its running that rubbish



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3.49 mb speed on a 50mb connection i would say they throttling me

and now the spped has come back. and both are with nothing running i get it all the time

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That's not necessarily throttling. 50mb is the MAX speed you can get, not the guarenteed speed all the time.
 
koooowweeee said:
do i not watch this in a min its happening now

cant even upload a image its running that rubbish



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3.49 mb speed on a 50mb connection i would say they throttling me

and now the spped has come back. and both are with nothing running i get it all the time

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If they were throttling you, you wouldn't be getting 3.49Mb mate.

The throttling, if it DID apply to the 50 Meg is 25% of speed. So you would be docked to around 37.5. If you are having that many problems, it is more probably a fault with your connection.

And PS, I torrent a fair bit now and again, and I still don't get throttled. Maybe because I torrent via a VPN but hey.
 
I've got a 7mb connection and have had various speeds off steam. They appear to be completely randomised, sometimes really good, other times very poor(and I am not a heavy steam user). I think it might be partly due to traffic or their servers as well as in your own case your own Isp throttling you. I used to be with Virgin and found them to be easily the worst Isp I've ever used. I was really lucky to reach dizzying speeds of 220kps at the very best of times(usually it was rivalling 56k speeds). As soon as my contract was up I switched immediately to another Isp and have never looked back. Now getting 7mb+ connection(on what Bt say is apparently a 3.5mb line)and actual download speeds between 700kps and 750kps any time of day or night weekday or weekends it doesn't make a difference. I can't tell you what to do, but can say from my own experience I left Virgin as soon as it was possible for me to do so(although I have heard from others their cable is much better than their shocking adsl)!
 
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madindehead said:
The speeds from the Steam servers can vary greatly given server demand etc. It's not unheard of that speeds will vary.
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Sorry to bring up my old thread. I'm redownloading F1 again. I started a few minutes ago at 11pm, so this is well after the VM throttle times which finish at 9pm. I normally get 1mb/sec with steam, but it's fluctuating between 350 and 600kb/sec, mostly around 350. So this must be a steam thing due to lots of others downloading from them?
 
Merlin5 said:
Sorry to bring up my old thread. I'm redownloading F1 again. I started a few minutes ago at 11pm, so this is well after the VM throttle times which finish at 9pm. I normally get 1mb/sec with steam, but it's fluctuating between 350 and 600kb/sec, mostly around 350. So this must be a steam thing due to lots of others downloading from them?
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yeah the speed always goes down over the sale periods due to so many ppl trying to download.

u could try switching servers.
 
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