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How can I get the best download speed on steam?

Whenever I download off steam it is very poor speeds like 40-150 kb/s and it undulates. and at first I just thought that this was my school's internet being horrible but then I got a message saying that I had free days to play WoW which I was bored, had nothing better to do and proly would just stop after 10 mins. But when I went to download WoW (which had not been on this computer before) It's download speed was 2-5 mb/s and the huge download took a very short time. So now I'm assuming it's steam that is causing this issue. So I am wondering how can I get steam to download at that rate? I have a lot of games that I bought but have never played because I don't wanna wait through the download.

Update:

Also plugging in a cord directly into my computer doesn't help it (at least by much maybe 10 kb/s difference) and it has the same speed as my home internet too.

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  • 8 years ago
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    Next time give us the results of speedtest.net, ya dingus.

    Go to speedtest.net. Run test with closest server. If you get decent megabits per second. Go to steam. Somewhere in the preferences or options you can change the download speeds, choose the fastest option.

  • 8 years ago

    i think its something with the steam servers becasue i have the same thing

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