Steam not downloading games

SemkeHG

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So the problem is, the download for a game starts fine at about 9mb/s but literally a couple seconds in the speed just absolutely drops down to 500kb/s and eventually completely stops. It will from time to time go up to 500kb/s but not long enough to download anything at all.

Now lets go over the solutions I have already attempted from searching up this problem (I'm only making this post because there have been no solutions given on anything i've searched)

This started about 3 months ago and there have been no changes since.

- I have fully reinstalled steam.
- I change between regions in multiple places in Europe when this happens but nothing changes.
- It is not a problem with my internet as downloads on anything else are completely fine but steam just does not work.
- I've checked my hard drive for problems installing and/or any faults with it and the drive is completely fine.
 


Hi, Well, you have downloaded stuff without issue, so your hardware is good as is the connection. I would have to say that it is an issue with the Steam server, not sure of moving around and thus multiple locations and if that would have any effect. Steam is way slower than my connection for sure. The other thing is hown many other people are using that pipe. The more people that you have on, the slower things get because of the limited bandwidth in most systems ( not so much with Fiber Optic ).
 

turbopixel

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I had this problem 3 or 4 times too. It seems to be a problem with Steam only and my only solution was to restart Steam or Windows and if it does not help, to wait hours. Also 3 or 4 times, I had a similar problem where Steam just don't want to complete the last megabytes. Its not a persistent problem, just a temporary and very seldom. I just wanted to tell you we are not alone on this planet. I have Windows 10 and can't remember this happening before on Windows 7 (but maybe it happened, I just can't remember). On my Linux OS on same hardware, this never happened.
 

SemkeHG

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I literally stated in the post that its been happening for over 3 months now....