Steam

[biron_w]

Anybody else think this is rubbish?
I've got 2 games on my pc that use it and both of them took ages to download the update through steam.One took well over 2 hours,i've just tried another and it said it'd take 1 day and 4 hours!
Is there any way to make it faster or make it work better?

 

[Gimpymoo]

Anybody else think this is rubbish?

Not me.

Quiet a few of us round these parts are very PRO STEAM.

What is your internet speed?
Who is your ISP?
What Package are you on?

What else have you tried?

 

[Admiral Huddy]

?? Never been a problem for me.. Have you checked your internet speed?

Alternatively, you can pop down to your nearest retailer, get parked, take a chance they have it, come home, install... download and install patches.. then play.. Should take you best part of the day

 

[iviv]

Get a faster internet connection?

 

[Lyon85]

No.

What is your download bandwidth? What games are you talking about, and by update do you mean download the entire thing?

Updates take a few minutes.

Edit: Beaten thrice!

 

[Beerbaron]

Steam is great

 

[biron_w]

The game is dawn of war 2.
I've got the disc,installed,steam says it's downloading updates and then says it's gonna take over a day.
I'm only on sky's very rubbish basic package at the moment but it's still 2 meg download so a day seems a very long time

 

[alex24]

Slow internet + big updates = long time waiting

 

[Chong Warrior]

I've had issues with Steam but you can't blame them for your poor internet connection. 2 meg will give you approx 200kb/s download speed full whack and that's if it's running properly.

Have you tried maxing your connection out to see how fast it is? try downloading openoffice is usally a good way.

 

[uv]

I'm only on sky's very rubbish basic package at the moment but it's still 2 meg download so a day seems a very long time

That's your problem.

I'm pretty sure my Gran's on 2meg.

 

[biron_w]

download speed on steam for this game is around 43kb/s whereas its 234kb/s with open office

 

[nex20]

Never had problems with steam or downloading games. Normally downlaods at 1.2/1.5mbps for me.

 

[Chong Warrior]

download speed on steam for this game is around 43kb/s whereas its 234kb/s with open office

Could be a firewall or router issue?

 

[iviv]

Open steam
File > Settings > Downloads

And make sure you've got the UK server selected (This will require a steam restart).

 

[AGD]

download speed on steam for this game is around 43kb/s whereas its 234kb/s with open office

I think it must be your connection, I've never had a download anywhere near that slow on steam...

 

[orderoftheflame]

Anybody else think this is rubbish?

No. I think it's genius tbh.

Sounds like you've got network/ISP issues as everyone else says.

 

[Substance]

Steam is fine for me and most people on here,

Very rarely download at anything less than 2MB/s

 

[biron_w]

It's now working at a faster rate as I changed my settings thanks to iviv.Still 5 hours though.
One thing I don't like is being told I can't play a game due to not being able to connect to steam servers,which happenend the other day.

 

[Substance]

It's now working at a faster rate as I changed my settings thanks to iviv.Still 5 hours though.
One thing I don't like is being told I can't play a game due to not being able to connect to steam servers,which happenend the other day.

I think you just need new internets tbh, yours sounds broken

 

[danswan]

Best thing about Steam for me is it doesn't matter than I lost my CD/Box/Key for games like the original half-life, they are registered on my account and I can download and play them at any time if I want to.

As far as speed goes, I loaded up HL2 and CS Source in no time yesterday, probably not much longer than if I were installing from CD.

+1 for Steam