While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:
Reward Tiers:
Patreon. Plain Donations: 
PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Reward Tiers:
Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Login / Register
- Linaro reveal they're collaborating with Valve for the Steam Frame
- Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too
- Canonical call for testing their Steam gaming Snap for Arm Linux
- Valve update the Steam Workshop to allow mods to support multiple game versions
- SteamOS 3.7.20 adds the ntsync driver to help improve some game performance
- > See more over 30 days here
How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck
How to install Hollow Knight: Silksong mods on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck- Weekend Players' Club 2026-01-09
- Minoscereb - Game recommendation?
- Arehandoro - Will you buy the new Steam Frame?
- Arehandoro - Welcome back to the GamingOnLinux Forum
- Liam Dawe - Does anyone game and capture card on linux mint?
- LoudTechie - See more posts
Downloading to internal SSD using a wired connection is around 10MB, same with SD card, also 10MB.
Wifi is also similar speeds <10MB just more random than wired.
Firefox speed test in desktop mode shows 300Mbit so I should be able to get at least 30MB. Internet connection is 1gig but dongle must be slowing it down to 300.
I tried changing DNS, Region, disabling wifi power savings and nothing helped.
Benchmarking the SSD showed 2.4GB reads and SD card 90MB so hardware seems fine.
On my PC I get the full speed I expect from steam and both are connected to same network switch.
I saw people getting 70MB on the deck online so its weird than I only get 10-ish.
Anyone has any ideas?
I actually tried 0 (default) and also setting it to like 1000000 since someone online mentioned setting it to something else than 0 worked for them but it was no change for me.
I also found a post online on the steam forums that looked like the exact issue as me but the reason for them was Pi-hole on the network which I don't have.
I did mostly try less known/older games before as you mentioned but I tried Elden Ring just now which should still be popular and I'm getting around 4.5 MB on wired on Deck.
Ordered another just to test and it worked. Now getting speeds up to 60MBs from steam.