Steam download help, speed it up

SethS · Oct 1, 2014

So I am downloading a game that is 35gb in size, and says it will take 15 hours to download.
Steam is downloading at 1 mb/s and my internet is 12 mbps(mega bit)
1st, is mb/s mega-bit or mega byte?
2nd, how can I go about improving this, when not patrolling the interwebs?
3rd, Thanks!

inerax · Oct 1, 2014

12mbps (megabits) is your internet speed.

You should download at about 1.2 MB (megabytes) per second. (10% of internet speed is a good rule of thumb. so 100mbps internet connection would download at about 10MB/s)

Steam shows you 1mb/s, that is spot on with what your internet speed is.

If you want to improve this, call your ISP. Get more bandwidth.

tsuneo6 · Oct 1, 2014

you should actually download against 1.5megabytes per second( via steam I always download at max speed)
maybe it's downloading more slowly because I assume you are downloading shadows of mordor, like veryone else is?

inerax · Oct 1, 2014

tsuneo6 :

maximum achievable speed of 1.5 MB/s but usually lower.

I always do 10% because its an easy round number. (1.2 MB/s in your case)

1 mb/s is not bad and i would not worry about that speed, i dont think anything is wrong and you should not be worried.

Call your ISP (or new providers in your area) and see if you can get something faster.

SethS · Oct 1, 2014

tsuneo6 :

yep

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