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c1ancY 16 Sep @ 11:11am
Download speed drop
Hi everyone, I have a problem with downloading from Steam. I’m downloading an update for Rust — at first, half of it downloads at about 90 MB/s (my usual speed), but then it drops to below 1 MB/s. I decided to check the disk for errors, but there weren’t any. I also checked the other drives, tested downloading from the internet, and then tested downloading from Steam to all disks. I chose Coloring Pixels (the smallest game in my library) and came to the conclusion that the problem is most likely with Steam itself, since I repeated all the same steps on another laptop as well.
tested SSD: Kingston NV2 1tb, Kingston KC3000 1tb
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c1ancY 16 Sep @ 11:22am 
I did a little investigation, and it seems that the download region is overloaded (I had it set to Kharkiv – Ukraine). I changed it to Stockholm – Sweden, and the download speed went back to normal.
Maybe this is the solution
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Bad 💀 Motha 22 Sep @ 2:59pm 
Because especially when doing an update, it has to use part of that process to move files around and repack them. It's just just a matter of doing a download. So it's completely normal.
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_I_ 22 Sep @ 3:44pm 
look at steams download page, if the disk line is high, its using the drive to decompress and copy game files
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〜・メルクリウス・〜 22 Sep @ 3:51pm 
Just recently it was jumping from 80 Kbps to 80 Mbps back and forth for few minutes for me. I even tested my bandwidth during that time & it was fine.
It did stabilize itself after some short time. I haven't been changing region or clearing cash, it just went back to normal speed by itself.
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_I_ 22 Sep @ 4:12pm 
its the way steam downloads+installs game
it downloads compressed files that need to be dealt with before downloading more

its not like a speedtest where it downloads and dumps it
Last edited by _I_; 22 Sep @ 4:13pm
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