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It's rather strange. Anyone seen something similar, where Steam doesn't want to use appropriate speeds over ethernet?
This sentence is not very clear:
The problem is on wired or wireless?
Last edited by damarrin on 15 November 2022 at 4:18 pm UTC
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The issue is when wired (2500 is shown in the gnome network settings) it is only getting 300-400KB/s.
If so, rename your Steam folder and run it with a fresh config and see then.
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The only other thing that comes to mind is the server mirror/download region used. But I don't see how wired vs. wireless would make any difference there.
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In general, I just prefer to avoid WiFi when possible. You can't beat latency of the wired connection.
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I don't get why Cat 6 isn't good for it. Cat 5 - yeah, but Cat 6 should be graded for 10 Gbps. Unless of course you have a very long cable (> 55 meters)?
Last edited by Shmerl on 16 November 2022 at 4:24 am UTC
Last edited by damarrin on 16 November 2022 at 5:22 am UTC
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Bandwidth test is a very theoretical thing. But at least it makes sure the local network works fine (no cable issues like some mentioned).
Steam likes to flush buffers immediatly so when your hard drive is slow - for whatever reason - this will affect download speed. So try to download on a different HD / partition where there's more space available and there's most likely little fragmentation of free space.
Also:
- Did you test with the same game on desktop and laptop? I have the effect that some games have low download speeds while with others I always get maximum speed.
- Did you try it at the "same time" (not in parallel of course, but more like: test on laptop and when finished, immediatly try on desktop)? During the day the download servers might have very big differences in available capacity/bandwidth depending on what's going on.
Last edited by peta77 on 16 November 2022 at 8:20 am UTC
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