Steam Downloads Slow

Nick Garrett

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Jul 18, 2013
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My steam downloads are around 300kbps to 400kbps, while battlenet can download games around 1.5mbps to 2.0mbps. Anything I can do to solve this?
 
Do you have a limit set on your download speed in the settings? Otherwise you are most likely being throttled by your network adapter (Killer NIC for example is capable of this) or your ISP. Possible your router has some QoS settings enabled or you are trying to download something else while downloading with Steam.

Due to my location it always picks Washington DC as my server but it is frequently overloaded. When I switch to something farther away such as US - Columbus it works normally.
 

Nick Garrett

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how should I change my QoS settings? I know how to access them in my router settings but what should I change

 


Make sure they are off.