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Voxol

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Registered: 2015-03-04

Posts: 27

[SOLVED] Really slow Steam downloads

I'm not sure if to post this here or in networking (or in newbie, frankly), but I hope I made the right choice.

That aside, it's been two days that I had really low steam download speed, reaching a peak low today with an average of 3/400Bps (I have a 14Mbps contract and usually get at least 1MBps on this)

Everything else loads just fine, i'm able to watch 1080p videos without lag and torrents go swimmingly.

I've tried to change the Steam server and checked if my modem had some ports blocked or firewalls, but everything seems ok.

Last edited by Voxol (2015-03-06 16:07:45)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: [SOLVED] Really slow Steam downloads

You might want to add some geodata to your post. I once had a similar problem and the reason was a peering problem of my ISP.

Voxol

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Registered: 2015-03-04

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Really slow Steam downloads

I'm in Italy and my ISP is Infostrada, but I never had this problem before.

I've been using steam on Arch for a year now always with the same ISP and it's the first time it did this to me.

GloW_on_dub

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Registered: 2013-03-13

Posts: 391

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Re: [SOLVED] Really slow Steam downloads

i'm not italian speaker, but this seem to validate Awebb response.
http://www.gamesvillage.it/forum/showth … d-di-Steam

Voxol

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Registered: 2015-03-04

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Really slow Steam downloads

i'm not italian speaker, but this seem to validate Awebb response.
http://www.gamesvillage.it/forum/showth … d-di-Steam

Sadly, it doesn't say anything useful or that I haven't tried (the only suggestion they give is trying to change the down server location, which I've done)

smudge

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Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 158

Re: [SOLVED] Really slow Steam downloads

Hi,

Have a look at: http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/di … 498372437/

You say it's been slow for only a few days so it might not be the same issue but setting up dnsmasq improved my download speeds.

Voxol

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Registered: 2015-03-04

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Really slow Steam downloads

Hi,

Have a look at: http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/di … 498372437/

You say it's been slow for only a few days so it might not be the same issue but setting up dnsmasq improved my download speeds.

Thank you! This was exactly my problem, and after configuring dnsmasq I'm happily back to downloading at my usual 1.4MBps.