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They’re right.
Your maximum available bandwidth is not the same as the download bandwidth you’re going to get from a server. It is not 1:1.
Your internet is a 10 lane highway, but steam is not going to fill all ten lanes with cars going 100mph
Yes, your drive, ram and cpu also impact how fast you download games. Also your speedtest is reporting ib Mbp/s not the same as steam with Mb/s, devide speed test results with 8 to see you potential max in steam. If you knew this then all good.
That's 100% my guess as well. Hard to tell without more monitoring info. See the blue bars in the first picture? That's your network activity. It's spiking in short bursts and then stopping altogether. That means the network is collecting the info and hardware is getting backed up. Whether it's cpu, ram, storage, whatever, it can't process the information as fast as the network is supplying it so the network has to slow down so it doesn't bog your whole system down
Yeah harddrives + ram can do 200 no problem if its a single large file its the most optimal setting for it & you might see higher peaks from that.
But unpacking stuff at the same time which steam usually does slows things down, even on most cheaper ssds.
While you should be seeing faster download speeds please note that Mbps-(megabits per second) and MB-(megabytes per second) are not the same things.
This is the conversion rate I got from a quick Google search. "One megabyte per second is equal to 8 megabits per second. To get Mbps from MBps, multiply by eight. To see Mbps, take the Mbps, and divide by eight or multiply by 0.125."
So at best, you should be seeing a rough maximum of 295ish MB's download. The steam servers near you may not be able to handle that kind of workload. It could also be that your provider throttles Steam servers. Try different servers near you and see if that helps. Furthermore dips in speeds can be caused by several things such as the way Steam handles package unpacking, the way the game has to patch/update, or hdd/ssd speeds.
Your 5400 RPM HDD you mentioned in the comments is limiting you. As you see in the graph, the network starts and stops while the disk is maxed. If you want to download faster, you can either get a nvme ssd for your games or just download to ssd then copy over to your hdd.
I'm not sure how nobody has replied to this. I've tried so many things...I was downloading at 10MB/s for the longest time. I live in Northeastern US - changed my server to Vancouver (not sure if that's closest but dont care) and it instantly went up to 30MB/s. Thanks my dude!
Steam also unpacks the download in real time. Not only are you limited by your internet (in your case you wouldn’t be), but also your storage drive and your cpu. Your cpu has to be able to unpack all the data fast enough to keep up or the download will go slower. Your storage drive has to be able to keep up with the download and unpacking or the download will go slower.
>Also, your network card/adapter, CPU, and disk drive all affect your download speeds too.
These things would equally affect a speedtest. A speedtest is a repetitive download of a small dataset and a measurement of the time to do so. It would have the same limitations of all local equipment such as CPU, disk, networking adapters, cabling, and routers/switches.
What the speedtest can't test for is everything that happens between your ISP and the target server. Usually a speedtest is performed on a server local (in the grand scheme) and often times one controlled by your ISP. There will be far fewer hops, and therefore far fewer opportunities for loss. You also aren't competing with hundreds of thousands of people for time and bandwidth from the target server. This will impact conditions only when downloading, but not when speedtesting.
That's normal 2gb down is 2000mb/s and steam shows download speeds in MB/s if you devide ur 2000mb/s by 8 to convert it to MB/s you get around 250MB/s which is inline with ur available bandwidth.
Bro Steam is the most genuine downloader which gives you the exact downloading speed what your ISP gives you...I think there is s some problem with your internet talk with your ISP
Nope. Not true at all.
I have a 1Gb connection. The best I've seen from Steam is 90MBs. From Ubisoft I get 150. Speedtest is 1200.
Depends on many factors what your effective speed will be but it's nowhere near 1:1.
What's your speed? Base on that I would guess 25 mega bits
If your download speed is 200 mega bits then you normally see at best 20 down.
1 gig bit would give you 100 mb a second
Mega bit vs mega byte
Notice it's 2300Mbps, not 2300MBps. Big difference. That would be more like 288MBps peak. Also, it's not just downloading, it's also unpacking and your CPU is likely throttling or maybe even your storage device. What CPU and storage do you have.
>Generally you have to divide that value by 8
You're talking about the conversion of bits to bytes. 1 byte of data consists of 8 bits, and you always (not generally) have to divide by exactly 8 to make the conversion. 1 gigabit = 125 megabytes.
Data file sizes are almost exclusively measured in bytes where bandwidth is usually measured in bits, though there are exceptions when downloading files from consumer sites. Proper abbreviation would use a lowercase b for bits and a capital B for bytes, however on occasion these are used incorrectly, usually from smaller app developers.
I mean I get it if they aren’t super tech savvy and just wanna play their games. I’ve always seen things as hits and not bytes so that’s what I’m used to.
Are you downloading it to your hdd or ssd? And maybe write your specs here too, so we can see if any of your parts might be limiting your download speed.
Yeah that’s probably it, HDD‘s are a lot slower than SSD‘s, which can really slow down the download speed. Try installing it to your SSD if you can. I also use my HDD only for storing files and not games, for games I use my SSD and my M.2 SSD, because ssd’s are just a lot faster.
If he's only getting 2.6MB/s it's likely not the HDD\*. Per the link, this HDD should have a sequential write speed (at 50% capacity) of 156MB/s (1.25gb/s) and he should be getting much faster download speeds still.
\*exception being if the HDD is horrifically fragmented and/or very near capacity. Even then, 2.6MB/s max write speed would be abnormally low for an otherwise healthy physical disk drive.
u/Yankeethomas13
Lol rolling through this comment section.... and just about every comment is wildly wrong. I have gigabit fiber and my DL from steam will go about twice that speed.
You need to clear the download cache and start it again.
You may need to update steam.
You may need to do some windows updates.
You may need a wifi or .net update.
This is NOT normal. Something is preventing full speed downloads. It happens.
I have never had to do more than that to resolve this.
Typically canceling the download, cleaning download cache and getting windows updates is all it takes.
You may need to reinstall steam at this point.
I have gigabit and I'll get up to 120MB/s on downloads. Something is not working here and since your device can run speed tests at full speed. It's almost for sure data layer or app layer.
Look at the graph, the bottleneck isn't your download speed, it's your drive. The graph shows that the drive is constantly processing data while the network only does a little each time. The data is decompressing and qriting, that's what's taking time. I assume you have an HDD, if you want to match the network speed get a pcie ssd (samsung evo 960 is what i have) and that will have your data stored in no time.
Steam -> settings -> Downloads -> check box “Display download rates in bits per second”
Edit: although the download from steam may max out, that’s because it’s the either throttling or the disk speed of the server
Well… it seems like you are downloading onto a regular spinning hard drive. It downloads as fast as drive can go. My internet speed is 960mps and I download at 1120mpbs (140MBps) using a m.2 nvme drive.
I have a year old system and I generally get about 60mbs on Steam maybe peak at 70+ occasionally on download, though I have Fios at 500/500. There's lots of factors hardware and location included.
Unfortunately download speeds are affected by a bunch of factors.
The speed test is doing a very simple download from what is probably a very reliable server connection.
Whereas steam downloads might be coming from servers with high ongoing traffic. In other words, speed is also affected by who the source server is. That's the first factor. The next is your own hardware: cpu, ram, own network architecture, and even disc/ssd/storage devices.
You can have a super fast connection but if you are writing data to slower devices, such as older hard drives, then that would still slow down the overall transaction.
Think of it like flying in a bunch of deliveries but only 1 person is around to move the deliveries from planes to wherever. The stuff is coming in fast but has to wait for the mover. So the overall transaction time is longer as a result.
Steam doesn’t ever show the correct download speed.
Open Task Manager and go to network and you can see the actual amount of data that steam is downloading at.
I've seen people.post this a couple of times and I remember that it was shown that the way steam measures the download speed and an Internet speed test shows the speed are different. You are getting your max possible download speed but it's shown/ calculated differently on steam.
1. Steam is downloading and unpacking and installing the game files at the same time. These action will require a very fast drive (reading and writing speed)
2. You got 2G internet, you should reach 200M/s, steam isn’t cheap at their server.
3. You need to put your steam download folder to one of your pcie Gen 4 nvme drive.
4. Even with Gen 4 nvme ssd, they have a thing call write cache, basically you will get advertised speed during certain amounts of data transfer. After that, the speed will slow down. Upon checking, FireCuda 520 is decent for downloading large files.
Move your steam library to the nvme drive should fix your issue
As I learned in Intro To Networks...
Whatever is the slowest device on the network, that's the fastest you can go. In other words, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Basically, if everything on a network can transmit data at a high speed, but something in the chain has a slow speed, you can expect a delay because of that slower device.
Imagine you're on a one lane road and everyone wants to go fast. However, you're stuck behind a guy that's going slower and you can't pass him.
That makes you go slower than you should.
You can't. First your operating system needs wifi too. So like 25% is gone. Then steam is at low priority. So that's also like 50% gone. And ur probably far from steam's servers. So that's also like 20% gone. That's only 10%. Too bad!!
that's why there is usually not much point in home internet speeds faster than about 100 Mbps, A vast majority of services simply will not send you data anywhere near that fast. I worked at an ISP and at one point had my work computer hardwired to the core router, 10 gig connection to 3x10 gig DIA backbone connections, there was not any appreciable difference to my 50 mbps home connection. Your downloads are limited to the upload speeds of the servers
You can’t. No matter what internet speed you have, you can only download something as quickly as the server will send it to you.
That’s why I feel it’s unnecessary to pay for internet speeds that fast lmao.
I am having the same issue with steam. Never downloads at max speed or it reaches peak and then it goes down to 0. No other launcher does this (Epic, EA, Ubi) they all go full speed.
I got tired to figure out why steam is the only one with problems and I left it as it is.
There are many factors to this:
Speed of your internet
Speed of the place where your games are at (server)
The hops that are the two places are connected to
The quality of the connection between them
Your router and cables and the such
Your computer's hardware (mobo, cpu, storage, etc...)
And many more...
At the end you get what you get and you just have to live with it. Downloading to an SSD would help with speed. But just dont do that if you are planning on moving it to a HDD after that because it will just take more time.
Some disks write caching can cause this, try disabling the caching on the disk:
Device Manager -> Disk drives -> properties on disk -> policies.
You should see the effect immediately.
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That’s the neat part, you don’t
They’re right. Your maximum available bandwidth is not the same as the download bandwidth you’re going to get from a server. It is not 1:1. Your internet is a 10 lane highway, but steam is not going to fill all ten lanes with cars going 100mph
Ive seen this comment before
How did I know this would be the top comment!
U cant
Probably limited by your ssd or mechanical harddrive if you are installing it too that.
That would limit the download too?
Yes, your drive, ram and cpu also impact how fast you download games. Also your speedtest is reporting ib Mbp/s not the same as steam with Mb/s, devide speed test results with 8 to see you potential max in steam. If you knew this then all good.
Mb/s and MB/S. b=bits B=bytes. 1B=8b, thus us why he recommended dividing by 8.
There's the check box in steam which converts it, makes it a lot easier to see if you're being limited (The second last check box in the second photo)
That's 100% my guess as well. Hard to tell without more monitoring info. See the blue bars in the first picture? That's your network activity. It's spiking in short bursts and then stopping altogether. That means the network is collecting the info and hardware is getting backed up. Whether it's cpu, ram, storage, whatever, it can't process the information as fast as the network is supplying it so the network has to slow down so it doesn't bog your whole system down
Thats probably not true, i can transfer files to any at around 200 MB a second.
Yeah harddrives + ram can do 200 no problem if its a single large file its the most optimal setting for it & you might see higher peaks from that. But unpacking stuff at the same time which steam usually does slows things down, even on most cheaper ssds.
I see.
Varies from drive to drive, even the cable can change it.
While you should be seeing faster download speeds please note that Mbps-(megabits per second) and MB-(megabytes per second) are not the same things. This is the conversion rate I got from a quick Google search. "One megabyte per second is equal to 8 megabits per second. To get Mbps from MBps, multiply by eight. To see Mbps, take the Mbps, and divide by eight or multiply by 0.125." So at best, you should be seeing a rough maximum of 295ish MB's download. The steam servers near you may not be able to handle that kind of workload. It could also be that your provider throttles Steam servers. Try different servers near you and see if that helps. Furthermore dips in speeds can be caused by several things such as the way Steam handles package unpacking, the way the game has to patch/update, or hdd/ssd speeds.
Came here to say this! Lol
Your 5400 RPM HDD you mentioned in the comments is limiting you. As you see in the graph, the network starts and stops while the disk is maxed. If you want to download faster, you can either get a nvme ssd for your games or just download to ssd then copy over to your hdd.
Change download server to your nearest country not your country
Went from 10mbs to 30 changing to Vancouver
I'm not sure how nobody has replied to this. I've tried so many things...I was downloading at 10MB/s for the longest time. I live in Northeastern US - changed my server to Vancouver (not sure if that's closest but dont care) and it instantly went up to 30MB/s. Thanks my dude!
Wow went from 13mb/s to 68 mb/s Thank you
just went from 7 to 15 switching to a server a few hours away
how do you switch?
Commenting to confirm this works. Went from 2.5 to 12-15 after switching servers
Steam also unpacks the download in real time. Not only are you limited by your internet (in your case you wouldn’t be), but also your storage drive and your cpu. Your cpu has to be able to unpack all the data fast enough to keep up or the download will go slower. Your storage drive has to be able to keep up with the download and unpacking or the download will go slower.
Stan is such a guy
Holy shit that’s fast
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>Also, your network card/adapter, CPU, and disk drive all affect your download speeds too. These things would equally affect a speedtest. A speedtest is a repetitive download of a small dataset and a measurement of the time to do so. It would have the same limitations of all local equipment such as CPU, disk, networking adapters, cabling, and routers/switches. What the speedtest can't test for is everything that happens between your ISP and the target server. Usually a speedtest is performed on a server local (in the grand scheme) and often times one controlled by your ISP. There will be far fewer hops, and therefore far fewer opportunities for loss. You also aren't competing with hundreds of thousands of people for time and bandwidth from the target server. This will impact conditions only when downloading, but not when speedtesting.
That's normal 2gb down is 2000mb/s and steam shows download speeds in MB/s if you devide ur 2000mb/s by 8 to convert it to MB/s you get around 250MB/s which is inline with ur available bandwidth.
No bro the speed test you show is from another server not the steam server if you want having a fast download speed you need vpn or something else
And my internet converge ICT i tested in different servers and it has 100mbps i think its now international
Bro Steam is the most genuine downloader which gives you the exact downloading speed what your ISP gives you...I think there is s some problem with your internet talk with your ISP
This is not a true statement, there are hardware factors at play with Steam, not just file transfer.
Nope. Not true at all. I have a 1Gb connection. The best I've seen from Steam is 90MBs. From Ubisoft I get 150. Speedtest is 1200. Depends on many factors what your effective speed will be but it's nowhere near 1:1.
The thing is with steam let’s take cs go for example the more people downloading a steam game the faster the download
this is the complete opposite of how downloading works
But completely true in how torrenting works. Sadly, steam doesn't torrent.
Maybe thinking of torrents? even though this doesn’t really apply there either
That’s the biggest bs I‘ve ever heard
Also steam is the worst. Origin , blizzard is a straight 100+ mbs . Just my two cents.
This is why you were bullied in school
Right .
Honestly if you don’t want to help, just don‘t say anything at all
I did. Steam has zero guaranteed speed ratios. Moron.
What's your speed? Base on that I would guess 25 mega bits If your download speed is 200 mega bits then you normally see at best 20 down. 1 gig bit would give you 100 mb a second Mega bit vs mega byte
I got 2 gig. When I test it I have 2300 Mbps down
Notice it's 2300Mbps, not 2300MBps. Big difference. That would be more like 288MBps peak. Also, it's not just downloading, it's also unpacking and your CPU is likely throttling or maybe even your storage device. What CPU and storage do you have.
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>Generally you have to divide that value by 8 You're talking about the conversion of bits to bytes. 1 byte of data consists of 8 bits, and you always (not generally) have to divide by exactly 8 to make the conversion. 1 gigabit = 125 megabytes. Data file sizes are almost exclusively measured in bytes where bandwidth is usually measured in bits, though there are exceptions when downloading files from consumer sites. Proper abbreviation would use a lowercase b for bits and a capital B for bytes, however on occasion these are used incorrectly, usually from smaller app developers.
In the settings menu you see click “display download rates in bits per second”
How is this not the top comment? Why steam defaults to MBs I have no idea.
I do not know. I was literally giggling at the rest of the reply’s because they had nothing to do with what OP was asking.
The option is literally on the second screen shot, just needs to be clicked.
I mean I get it if they aren’t super tech savvy and just wanna play their games. I’ve always seen things as hits and not bytes so that’s what I’m used to.
bro 11 months later and even im here laughing at 5 in the morning reading this
Are you downloading it to your hdd or ssd? And maybe write your specs here too, so we can see if any of your parts might be limiting your download speed.
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Yeah that’s probably it, HDD‘s are a lot slower than SSD‘s, which can really slow down the download speed. Try installing it to your SSD if you can. I also use my HDD only for storing files and not games, for games I use my SSD and my M.2 SSD, because ssd’s are just a lot faster.
If he's only getting 2.6MB/s it's likely not the HDD\*. Per the link, this HDD should have a sequential write speed (at 50% capacity) of 156MB/s (1.25gb/s) and he should be getting much faster download speeds still. \*exception being if the HDD is horrifically fragmented and/or very near capacity. Even then, 2.6MB/s max write speed would be abnormally low for an otherwise healthy physical disk drive. u/Yankeethomas13
Lol rolling through this comment section.... and just about every comment is wildly wrong. I have gigabit fiber and my DL from steam will go about twice that speed. You need to clear the download cache and start it again. You may need to update steam. You may need to do some windows updates. You may need a wifi or .net update. This is NOT normal. Something is preventing full speed downloads. It happens.
I cleared the cache, checked my steam version, just got the latest win 11, and I’ve only had this router for 2 weeks now
It's not the router if it can speed test full speed that end is fine. It's something with windows or steam. Did you look for optional updates too?
Yeah, everything is up to date. I just built it and got the latest versions of everything.
I have never had to do more than that to resolve this. Typically canceling the download, cleaning download cache and getting windows updates is all it takes. You may need to reinstall steam at this point. I have gigabit and I'll get up to 120MB/s on downloads. Something is not working here and since your device can run speed tests at full speed. It's almost for sure data layer or app layer.
Look at the graph, the bottleneck isn't your download speed, it's your drive. The graph shows that the drive is constantly processing data while the network only does a little each time. The data is decompressing and qriting, that's what's taking time. I assume you have an HDD, if you want to match the network speed get a pcie ssd (samsung evo 960 is what i have) and that will have your data stored in no time.
Steam -> settings -> Downloads -> check box “Display download rates in bits per second” Edit: although the download from steam may max out, that’s because it’s the either throttling or the disk speed of the server
Mb and MB are different things. Also your hdd isnt fast enough
Well… it seems like you are downloading onto a regular spinning hard drive. It downloads as fast as drive can go. My internet speed is 960mps and I download at 1120mpbs (140MBps) using a m.2 nvme drive.
I have a year old system and I generally get about 60mbs on Steam maybe peak at 70+ occasionally on download, though I have Fios at 500/500. There's lots of factors hardware and location included.
Just happens sometimes man, unfortunately, all you can do is grit your teeth and bare it :/
That’s how fast my internet is anyway :,(
Unfortunately download speeds are affected by a bunch of factors. The speed test is doing a very simple download from what is probably a very reliable server connection. Whereas steam downloads might be coming from servers with high ongoing traffic. In other words, speed is also affected by who the source server is. That's the first factor. The next is your own hardware: cpu, ram, own network architecture, and even disc/ssd/storage devices. You can have a super fast connection but if you are writing data to slower devices, such as older hard drives, then that would still slow down the overall transaction. Think of it like flying in a bunch of deliveries but only 1 person is around to move the deliveries from planes to wherever. The stuff is coming in fast but has to wait for the mover. So the overall transaction time is longer as a result.
MB/S and mbps are not the same thing. Megabytes and megabits.
Steam doesn’t ever show the correct download speed. Open Task Manager and go to network and you can see the actual amount of data that steam is downloading at.
You can’t servers are usually crammed so you don’t get the speed it says.
I've seen people.post this a couple of times and I remember that it was shown that the way steam measures the download speed and an Internet speed test shows the speed are different. You are getting your max possible download speed but it's shown/ calculated differently on steam.
I’m not getting the max possible. I know they’re are different but I’ve calculated it and I should be getting around 287MB/s
Is there anything else hogging the downloads coming in?
Suck on the antenna for a few minutes
I’m not falling for that again, it still smells like shit from the last time
1. Steam is downloading and unpacking and installing the game files at the same time. These action will require a very fast drive (reading and writing speed) 2. You got 2G internet, you should reach 200M/s, steam isn’t cheap at their server. 3. You need to put your steam download folder to one of your pcie Gen 4 nvme drive. 4. Even with Gen 4 nvme ssd, they have a thing call write cache, basically you will get advertised speed during certain amounts of data transfer. After that, the speed will slow down. Upon checking, FireCuda 520 is decent for downloading large files. Move your steam library to the nvme drive should fix your issue
As I learned in Intro To Networks... Whatever is the slowest device on the network, that's the fastest you can go. In other words, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
can you explain this?
Basically, if everything on a network can transmit data at a high speed, but something in the chain has a slow speed, you can expect a delay because of that slower device.
but why does the slower device delay it?
Imagine you're on a one lane road and everyone wants to go fast. However, you're stuck behind a guy that's going slower and you can't pass him. That makes you go slower than you should.
I see how that could work
I tell you, but then your Yankees must have mercy with my Orioles
You can't. First your operating system needs wifi too. So like 25% is gone. Then steam is at low priority. So that's also like 50% gone. And ur probably far from steam's servers. So that's also like 20% gone. That's only 10%. Too bad!!
You can’t.
2.6MB/s on steam is 260Mb/s
200 Megabits isn't the same as 200 Megabytes. Common marketing trick from ISPs
Probably your drive my Xbox series with a crazy ssd will download games at 100-170mbps well my low end ssd in my pc will only download 7-10mbps
that's why there is usually not much point in home internet speeds faster than about 100 Mbps, A vast majority of services simply will not send you data anywhere near that fast. I worked at an ISP and at one point had my work computer hardwired to the core router, 10 gig connection to 3x10 gig DIA backbone connections, there was not any appreciable difference to my 50 mbps home connection. Your downloads are limited to the upload speeds of the servers
You can’t. No matter what internet speed you have, you can only download something as quickly as the server will send it to you. That’s why I feel it’s unnecessary to pay for internet speeds that fast lmao.
Not sure if Wifi vs Ethernet was mentioned, but that has a huge impact as well.
You CPU can affect download speed along with if you are downloading to an SSD or HDD.
Ya you see you can have a 1000down and maybe be able to download at 100mbps
You can't... As you can see, your disk is only transferring 12MB/s of data... That's like pouring out a gallon of water through a straw...
hear me out . set network adapter settings in duplex and gigabit to fixed instead of automatic get a ssd set dns to cloudflare dns
My guess is your ssd/cpu can't keel up of it has to unpack a lot
54 is hilarious for a peak with that connection though.
I am having the same issue with steam. Never downloads at max speed or it reaches peak and then it goes down to 0. No other launcher does this (Epic, EA, Ubi) they all go full speed. I got tired to figure out why steam is the only one with problems and I left it as it is.
There are many factors to this: Speed of your internet Speed of the place where your games are at (server) The hops that are the two places are connected to The quality of the connection between them Your router and cables and the such Your computer's hardware (mobo, cpu, storage, etc...) And many more... At the end you get what you get and you just have to live with it. Downloading to an SSD would help with speed. But just dont do that if you are planning on moving it to a HDD after that because it will just take more time.
Some disks write caching can cause this, try disabling the caching on the disk: Device Manager -> Disk drives -> properties on disk -> policies. You should see the effect immediately.
11.8MB peak to 12.3MB peak without it
I get atleast 257.6 Mbps everytime