Help! Fast internet but downloads are slow!

[verysmall]

I get around 900mbps down!!! but while downloading things say on steam for instance, games will only download at around 9-23mbps. Ive tried changing my download region, clearing the cache, everything that i can think of! Help please!

[Anghammarad]

Having such a big Internet line at home doesn't guarantee you that every site you want to download from has the same size and that you won't have to share the server with other people who might want to download something too... 

 

so calm down, make a coffee/tea, get some bisquits and watch some series/yt videos until the download finishes...

 

 

[Tartandy]

1 minute ago, verysmall said:

Games will only download at around 9-23mbps.

Are you perhaps mistaking steams downloads as showing mbps instead of MB/s? As a side note I am also insanely jealous of your connection speed.

[verysmall]

2 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

Having such a big Internet line at home doesn't guarantee you that every site you want to download from has the same size and that you won't have to share the server with other people who might want to download something too... 

 

so calm down, make a coffee/tea, get some bisquits and watch some series/yt videos until the download finishes...

 

 

yes but ive seen planty of videos and things of people downloading things from steam at ATLEAST 60 mbps

[Ashiella]

5 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

Having such a big Internet line at home doesn't guarantee you that every site you want to download from has the same size and that you won't have to share the server with other people who might want to download something too... 

 

so calm down, make a coffee/tea, get some bisquits and watch some series/yt videos until the download finishes...

 

 

Well I mean, my connection is 250mbps and I get around 20MB/s on steam, so....

[desertcomputer]

6 minutes ago, Tartandy said:

Are you perhaps mistaking steams downloads as showing mbps instead of MB/s? As a side note I am also insanely jealous of your connection speed.

^

2 minutes ago, verysmall said:

yes but ive seen planty of videos and things of people downloading things from steam at ATLEAST 60 mbps

Depends what games and what download server youre connected to. There is many factors effecting your download speed. I mean personally if you can download update under 10minutes I am pretty happy.

 

If only i have that upload speed.

[verysmall]

5 minutes ago, Tartandy said:

Are you perhaps mistaking steams downloads as showing mbps instead of MB/s? As a side note I am also insanely jealous of your connection speed.

they're downloading around 9-23 megaBYTES per second. which is still not as fast as it should be!

[Merlin Sa]

Are you downloading to a hard drive? I have a 200 Mbps line and in some downloads is the hard drive the bottle neck.

[Anghammarad]

2 minutes ago, verysmall said:

they're downloading around 9-23 megaBYTES per second. which is still not as fast as it should be!

again as I said above, you having a 1 gbit connection at home doesn't mean you got the internet for your own... 

[verysmall]

2 minutes ago, Merlin Sa said:

Are you downloading to a hard drive? I have a 200 Mbps line and in some downloads is the hard drive the bottle neck.

i am currently downloading to a hard drive but i have tried downloading it to my 250gb ssd and still same results!

 

[verysmall]

I get it right, like around 25mbps isnt really that disgustingly awful! my biggest point is just that with speeds this high i should be downloading faster!

[Merlin Sa]

Otherwise, just look in the Task Manager if something else is bottleneck. (if you have Win 10)

If not it's because of Steam or your Provider.

 

[ZeouLs]

6 minutes ago, verysmall said:

I get it right, like around 25mbps isnt really that disgustingly awful! my biggest point is just that with speeds this high i should be downloading faster!

That is just a theoretical max speed. You are never going to have your maxspeed all the time, especially if you live in a big city.

Lets break it down and make it more simple. You own a mustang that is capable of going 200mph and you start driving on the highway. But the highway is full of other cars so you have to slow down and drive 100mph. Unless the left lane is free you are not going reach your 200mph. I had the same issue with my LTE connection. The transmitter I was connecting to had so many people using it on prime times that I couldnt even hit 100KB/s though when I downloaded something over night, the transmitter had very little users so I had a way faster connection.

[Tartandy]

2 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

again as I said above, you having a 1 gbit connection at home doesn't mean you got the internet for your own... 

Gonna agree with anghammarad here, I know there are videos of people with insane download speeds on steam, but that doesn't mean that every steam server is able to do so. For you to get download speeds anywhere near your network connection a lot things need to be working fast as hell. Perhaps the steam servers you download from are very busy, or far away.

 

Now I understand that because you have 900+ downlaods you'd want that as much as possible, but just because you can get it, doesn't mean steam can always push data that fast. Chains are only as strong as the weakest link, and just because you're not necessarily the weakest link, doesn't mean that the chain is as strong as your bit the entire way.

[Ezzy-525]

I've got 400Mbit-ish broadband and sometimes steam downloads at 50mbytes/s sometimes it sits at 15 or so...luck of the draw really, plus it depends on the strain at the time on the servers.

[Spotty]

What country are you in and what is your ISP?

It's possible for an ISP to throttle the data to certain traffic such as Steam. If they're delivering gigabit speeds to a lot of customers they may do this to ensure there isn't congestion on the network caused by just a few people downloading steam games.

[NelizMastr]

I think you overestimate steam's capacity. Right now the summer sale is happening, so there are millions of people buying and downloading from their servers. The bandwidth is shared and loadbalanced so everyone get's his or her share. If you want faster downloads, wait until after the summer sale.