Steam Slow Download Solution
I just bought Civ IV on Steam, because there’s some kind of sale. I started downloading it and it was giving me a measly ~200 KB/S download speed. This kind of sucked because I wanted to play pretty soon, and it would take a few hours at that rate.
I looked in the preferences for downloads, and noticed that I was connected to their Chicago datacenter. I tried switching it to Detroit and I still got some lame speeds. Then I switched to Phoenix, Arizona. And voila:
My hypothesis was that the datacenters were dying from the load of the Steam summer sale. So I tried picking a datacenter in a less sparsely populated area (Phoenix probably isn’t serving that much load compared to Chicago or New York), even though it was further away. I think my hypothesis stands. So if you’re experiencing slow downloads, try picking a datacenter that’s further away. Just wait until my download is finished first. 🙂
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I’ve tried it your way and there’s no doubt that it worked for you but unfortunately the same cannot be said for me. I can pause this download and start a torrent downloading the same game and within minutes I’m rolling at 1.2 Mb/s.
yeah didn’t work for me either. ive tried every state in australia lol, maxing out at 150 kb/s. which is terrible
My max is 40kb/s so stop crying lol
I’m averaging around 30-50kb/s for the last 4 days, left this game going over night and all day while I was at work and it’s still going. Maybe I can play tomorrow after work
Mine is also same it creeps me out when i fall in a sleep coz i know the game wont be downloaded when i get up in the next morning
Thanks! That did work somewhat for me. For the others that commented, make sure you restart Steam after you change servers to see if it will work for you. I am also guessing that you may have to try several different ones to get the best results. And even than who knows. I will say it still didn’t max out my connection constantly. I was at around 200KB/s and now I am around 250 – 300KB/s. My max is at around 300KB/s so I am not sure if it would have went higher if I had a better connection on my end. Still its not great but it did help. Thanks
Great tip. I just changed mine to New York from Manchester because the Americans are still in bed and got a 15X speed improvement.
Stop clogging the servers for people who actually live near Phoenix you tard!
nvm this is from 2010
I usually get 1-1.2MB/s when downloading, bought shogun 2 today, last day of sale so probably just overloaded servers, tried a few datacentres and so far nothing above what i was getting from my nearest server.
This actually worked pretty good.
You´re the king. Worked perfectly for me. Was downloading at a rate of 39kb/s – now it´s “flying” at 1,3 mb/s.
It works. downloading MW3. went from 100kb/s to 3mb/s. nice. ty for help
i was DL from atlanta and switching to phoenix almost doubled my speed. thanks!
You legend, thanks alot!
Thanks for the tip, I’m in Australia, tried multiple Australian servers and couldn’t get above 80kb/sec, switched to Washington and now I download at 450kb/sec (Line max in my area) Nice work!
Dude, you are a legend! Been re-downloading some old games i really wanted to play, but some of them were going abnormally slow. I wasnt even aware you could select your server of choice. Thanks a bunch bud
Wow, this really does help a lot! Great find!
iv been trying to download skyrim for half a month and were only 45% or somthing :/
we are down at 2.3KB/sec min we once got 50KB/sec most of the time were at about 18kb/sec