Steam Downloads

[JohnMcClane]

Two things...
How come I can't DL at my full capacity... 2000kbs (I get it on some downloads)

And is there any way to enable the downloads while I play something else?

[Legato]

lol i get between 60kbs and 140

think urself lucky lol



7 hours to download L4D

[AberdeenGus]

My max and general level of d/l is about 600/700 k/b. Although it regularly drops around the 100 mark.. I think possibly its demand on the game being downloaded. Just after I bought L4D I had a hugely slow download rate.

[JohnMcClane]

Hmmm, wouldn't have thought Bioshock would be in too high demand.
I got like 600/700 kb/s
Whatever, it's done now

[Mseries3]

I download at a solid 1 Mb/s from steam

[JohnMcClane]

Prick

[Redddraggon]

Hmmm, wouldn't have thought Bioshock would be in too high demand.

A 96 rated game for £3.49?

I bought it and my nephew bought it (the same day as you perhaps)

So probably a great number of other people on Steam thought Bishock was a bargain too

Count yourself lucky, my N. Wales connection maxes out at 180kB/s

[IXL]

Two things...
How come I can't DL at my full capacity... 2000kbs (I get it on some downloads)

And is there any way to enable the downloads while I play something else?

I know its a done deal now, but there could of been any number of reasons.

In this situation, I would pause the download, close steam, maybe restart the router, then restart steam and restart the download. It could just be the particular file server you were on was naff/full etc.. Ive had this sort of thing in the past with just normal windows downloads, decided to cancel them and try again with seconds later getting whopping speeds...

[JohnMcClane]

Cheers IXl, i'll take that into accout when I have to download stuff next time.

It's not in the current best sellers, but maybe they don't put the heavily discounted ones in that list.

[jackDEFECTORbauer]

Not sure if this is true or not, but I seem to recall it can depend on the content server steam assigns to you - usually the least busy/fastest one to your location. I beleive deleting the .blob file and a few .dll's will reset your default content server.

Again I could be wrong on that, never had a problem myself, steam will usually hammer my connection at max speed til its done.

[Legato]

Not sure if this is true or not, but I seem to recall it can depend on the content server steam assigns to you - usually the least busy/fastest one to your location. I beleive deleting the .blob file and a few .dll's will reset your default content server.

Again I could be wrong on that, never had a problem myself, steam will usually hammer my connection at max speed til its done.

no your right that does work, but sometimes it can take 8-10 deletes and restarts of steam so its not really practical but it does reset your content server