Steam Downloads why so long to download?

What speed are you downloading at when you start the download?

as alex said, either it's your settings in steam or your connection.

If you're downloading at 500-600kb/s then that means a game (say 10GB) would take you roughly 40-45 minutes.

That's odd...

Yeah thats what I thought ? But maybe like Brett said might just be server downloads in general are the cause for the slow downloads.

Next time you download/install a big game, check periodically on it (to see if it keeps the 500-600Kb/s speed). In my case, it'll start at maybe 300kb/s for a few minutes and then go up to 500-600kb/s. On occassion when i've downloaded random unpopular games (i'm thinking of Limbo, Trine, and those types) the download went up to 1Mb/s speed.

If that is the speed at which you're downloading but it's taking much longer than say an hour to download then you might want to look at local potential issues such as how your disk is fragmented (is it almost full?).

Anyways, downloading a full game within an hour is quite reasonable IMO.

Cheers.

Alex

I thought steam throttled download speed, I only say that because on origins i get 3.3Mb/s. On steam along with all my friend's it jumps to 2Mb/s then solid at 1.1Mb/s. The amount of people on steam servers will DESTROY your download speed. I bought a game when skyrim came out got a whopping 51bytes/s OUCH.

It's definitely inconsistent for me. I can get up to 2.5mb/s from a good source, like youtube usually streams at that speed for 1080p. But, Steam it will be anywhere from 300kb/s to 1mb/s and it's rarely stable. Not sure what the issue is.