Felt like steam started throttling me (my steam dl speeds on the Download settings tab are unlimited - i.e checkboxes for limit bandwidth are unchecked and the boxes where the limit is placed are empty).Īnd please - don't bother telling me there's lots of threads on this topic - I've read read quite a few of them and none helped. That got me an average of 25 to 35 MBs for about a month then boom - all of a sudden DL speeds jumped back down to 18 to 20 MBS. The only thing that I've done that made even the slightest difference was turning off QOS on my router and PC ethernet. I download to my SSD which an M2.SSD NVME type and has a transfer speed as measured by DiskMark of 3.8 GBs and yes that's Giga Bytes (amazed me but it s real).īased on just those two things I've got to conclude the relatively slow DL speed is a function of STEAM. I regularly do it and always before a big steam DL. Once just once I had a download that hit 560 Mbs peak but averaged 280 on that one. Using STEAM I very rarely get over 160 Mbs. Using Origin and downloading EA games I very, very rarely get a download speed less than 700 Mbs.