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Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
01:19
@SathyajithBhat some ISPs throttle traffic with steam...
might be worth trying a VPN to test
 
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Sathyajith Bhat
Sathyajith Bhat
06:18
@JourneymanGeek hmm good point
 
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Michael
Michael
15:31
@SathyajithBhat Maybe your hard drive write speed is slowing the download. The speed test may not be writing anything to disk.
Sathyajith Bhat
Sathyajith Bhat
@Michael have a nvme drive, dont think that'd be the case
Michael
Michael
Maybe your antivirus is scanning the file as it's being downloaded? Does your CPU spike during the download?
Sathyajith Bhat
Sathyajith Bhat
Nope.. pretty much flat. I only use Defender, no third party av
Michael
Michael
The website you are downloading the file from might have its own speed cap.
Sathyajith Bhat
Sathyajith Bhat
that's steam :)
Michael
Michael
15:34
Steam? Did you check your settings? It is possible to throttle your downloads in Steam.
Sathyajith Bhat
Sathyajith Bhat
I mention above

> I don't have any throttling rates setup.

^^ I did check that initially. which is why its so puzzling
Michael
Michael
Maybe Steam has its own throttling. I remember when they disabled automatic game updates when the pandemic started because they were worried that all of the game downloads would slow down the whole internet.
Sathyajith Bhat
Sathyajith Bhat
right on
Michael
Michael
Steam also probably does stuff like decompression which slows things down.
 
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Journeyman Geek
Journeyman Geek
18:43
@Michael that its slowing down the network as a whole is wierd
the other alternative is some exotic kinda congestion
Hennes
Hennes
19:37
I heard steam postponed the auto update on games which were not used by the user in the past. But nothing about download speeds

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