Steam, Shogun2 And Torrent sites

Bleek · 26 Jun 2011 at 19:27

I normally get around 1-1.2MB a second on my 20meg line, that's pretty acceptable to me!

Gackt · 26 Jun 2011 at 19:34

I get 1.9MB/s on my 8MB line.

badcompany · 26 Jun 2011 at 19:42

So free to play people are slowing the steam network for those who have spent their hard cash ?

Sounds dumb if you ask ne

badcompany · 26 Jun 2011 at 19:49

Gackt said:
I get 1.9MB/s on my 8MB line.

Lol no you don't its not possible is it?

Rroff · 26 Jun 2011 at 19:52

If hes saying 1.9MByte/s on an 8Mbit connection then no.

I had some odd slowdowns on Steam lately - caught it bouncing around as low as 21KB/s the other day but swapping content servers sorted that out and back to 1.1MB/s (10MBit/s) flat out (the max my line will take).

James J · 26 Jun 2011 at 20:17

Just backup the games to an external hard drive or something when you download them or they get a major update (shogun 2 being the prime example with the dx11 patch giving even retail customers a large download still). I've got a 1tb external hdd with around 600gb of steam games backed up onto it and when I want to install most of my old catalogue of games it takes around 2/3 minutes restoring the backup.

Evilsod · 26 Jun 2011 at 20:36

I have had maybe 1mb on very good days with an 8mb connection but 1.9? No. Nothing except the odd glitch where it seems to stack 2 or 3 seconds worth of info together and give a really high peak transfer.

Gackt · 26 Jun 2011 at 20:52

badcompany said:
Lol no you don't its not possible is it?

That's what the Steam downloader says!

Rroff said:
If hes saying 1.9MByte/s on an 8Mbit connection then no.

I had some odd slowdowns on Steam lately - caught it bouncing around as low as 21KB/s the other day but swapping content servers sorted that out and back to 1.1MB/s (10MBit/s) flat out (the max my line will take).

Maybe the Steam downloader is lying? I get around the same with uTorrent and the like. (Good seeds, ofc)

Evilsod said:
I have had maybe 1mb on very good days with an 8mb connection but 1.9? No. Nothing except the odd glitch where it seems to stack 2 or 3 seconds worth of info together and give a really high peak transfer.

It gives the figure on the current rate.

This is what package we're on and what we're rated at and the max we can seem to get in our area. So unless they're lying at Orange...

Which to be fair, wouldn't surprise me.

Phinor · 26 Jun 2011 at 22:10

Steam isn't any better in Northern Europe. Having tried every server around here, the most I can get is around 500kB/s with a 100Mb connection. The other day I downloaded Magic 2012 with an average speed of less than 100KB/s, couldn't be bothered to change the server but just proves my point. Using UK content servers I get up to 2MB/s but usually around 1MB/s. For best speeds I have to ignore European servers completely and just use a North American content server. Then there's the problem of actually starting a download. If anything new is being released, it usually takes 5-10 hours to actually start a download (unless using US servers, then you can usually start the download immediately). The weird thing is, according to Steam content server stats (site currently down, I would link it otherwise) the European servers are barely ever used by people at all. So most European content servers are a) very, very slow and b) very few people actually use them.

Meanwhile EADLM/Origin and Impulse always give me at least 5MB/s and often quite a bit more. Just the other day I got DA:O Ultimate edition at over 7MB/s. Even Direct2Drive often hovers around the 5MB/s mark. Obviously Steam has the most users but they should also have most bandwidth by a huge margin. It just seems the bandwidth isn't really meant for us Europeans.

iviv · 26 Jun 2011 at 22:15

Gackt said:
That's what the Steam downloader says!

Maybe the Steam downloader is lying? I get around the same with uTorrent and the like. (Good seeds, ofc)

It gives the figure on the current rate.

This is what package we're on and what we're rated at and the max we can seem to get in our area. So unless they're lying at Orange...

Which to be fair, wouldn't surprise me.

speedtest.net or it didn't happen

RDM · 26 Jun 2011 at 22:20

BobbyBBB said:
Or sometimes its better to use servers that are less used or its late night for them, I usually cap my connection on the S.Korea server.

The OP seems a little slow, didn't want to confuse him with too much detail.

Klo · 26 Jun 2011 at 22:27

Steam is great most of the time

Myshra · 27 Jun 2011 at 10:10

Gackt said:
I get 1.9MB/s on my 8MB line.

You have an 8MegaBIT line so your total throughput is 8 (megabit's) / 8 (bits in a byte) = 1MByte/sec. As DSL has a 6-10% overhead it's going to be less than this. Without a form of compression what you're saying is unfortunately not possible.

What's more likely is either: You have more than an 8Mbit line or the client isn't too hot at calculating throughput and possibly lags now and then.

Steam has had a very very bad weekend. One of the largest games by filesize was made free and it was very popular (http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/). At peak in the last 48hr's it was shifting 46.2 gigabytes per second. It will calm down over the next week.

I set myself to Romania for what it's worth, works fine come rain or shine.

Bleek · 27 Jun 2011 at 10:13

Myshra said:
At peak in the last 48hr's it was shifting 46.2 gigabytes per second. It will calm down over the next week.

Nice!

Gackt · 27 Jun 2011 at 11:24

iviv said:
speedtest.net or it didn't happen

Okay so apparently I'm on a 17mb line. :eek:

Ninja-internet-upgrades ***.