Steam is soooooooo slooooow

[rejenorst]

Bit of a rant but i noticed that it is taking around 4 days to download IL-2 1946 via steam. A download of 5 gigs.

Using impulse now for example I can download 5 gigs in 1 - 1 and a half days. Why the hell is steam so slow? I am extremely reluctant to purchase anything off steam again at these speeds. I may as well as make a long drive to go buy the physical product.

 

[Evilknightz]

Thats like 100KBPS isn't it? Sounds perfectly decent to me...

 

[Oyipggy]

Make sure you have the Steam server set to the one closest to you. It's in the settings somewhere. Besides that, I'm not sure what to say; I've never had a problem with Steam's download speeds.

Other things though...

 

[rejenorst]

Thats like 100KBPS isn't it? Sounds perfectly decent to me...

Currently at 9 kb/sec

Make sure you have the Steam server set to the one closest to you. It's in the settings somewhere. Besides that, I'm not sure what to say; I've never had a problem with Steam's download speeds.

Other things though...

Cheers just checked it. It was downloading from Taiwan. Dunno if changing it to Philippines will help.

 

[Evilknightz]

Oh, ****, I'll go sit in my corner with my calculator and try to figure that math nonsense out.

 

[rejenorst]

Oh, ****, I'll go sit in my corner with my calculator and try to figure that math nonsense out.

I estimated the number of days. So far its been 2-3 days and its at 53%

 

[Swadius 2.0]

Oh, ****, I'll go sit in my corner with my calculator and try to figure that math nonsense out.

60 secs x 60 mins x 24 hours = 86400 seconds in a day.
86400 x 9k= 777600k
Or around 780mbs a day if he doesn't turn it off.

 

[rejenorst]

Oh, ****, I'll go sit in my corner with my calculator and try to figure that math nonsense out.

60 secs x 60 mins x 24 hours = 86400 seconds in a day.
86400 x 9k= 777600k
Or around 780mbs a day if he doesn't turn it off.

That's pretty spot on. First day I only got around 700-800 megs.

 

[Archonsod]

Servers are being hammered due to the new L4D content. As happens any time something popular is released. Seriously, never a more apt name has been chosen than Steam; Babbage's engines ran faster for ****s sake.

 

[rejenorst]

Servers are being hammered due to the new L4D content. As happens any time something popular is released. Seriously, never a more apt name has been chosen than Steam; Babbage's engines ran faster for ****s sake.

Yeah I tried switching to the Philippines and the bit rate is less stable. I am hoping it will be better tonight if not I will switch back to Taiwan servers.

At this rate I will have to wait 5 days for a download to complete. Impulse driven is so much ****ing faster. Its just a pity they don't have the majority of the latest games

 

[Archonsod]

It'll probably speed back up once everyone has the update.

 

[rejenorst]

It'll probably speed back up once everyone has the update.

I hope so. I have to pay 10 bucks a week for the net connection lol. Not that I wouldn't pay anyway.

I Seriously hope the download is sound. I don't want a corrupted file making me download again. Arrg that would be a pain heh.

Cheers.

 

[NordArcher]

This must have to do with timezone and location, because i download stuff at 1MB/s through Steam, it's faster than most torrents.

 

[rejenorst]

Well I reconnected my net connection and all of a sudden its gone up to a delightful over 256 kbps. Not sure why it was so slow. Maybe it only just reconnected to a local server.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

You have to restart it to change servers but I suggest you use some far off place few people live at.






Like Siberia.
Helped me a bit during the whole Alien Swarm craze.

 

[rejenorst]

You have to restart it to change servers but I suggest you use some far off place few people live at.






Like Siberia.
Helped me a bit during the whole Alien Swarm craze.

Lol Siberia is actually listed? I can just picture two Russians at a server shed in the snow with a diesel heater...

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Heh.
Worked rather quick for me back then too.
Though it was a time when the average server speed was slightly...hammered...