[zelon88]

I'd beg to differ, especially if your console or PC is networked wirelessly. 802.11n can only do 600mbps in the best conditions. Residential gig pipes are not uncommon anymore.

I've seen some ridiculous download speeds from Steam, but never enough to saturate my gig pipe even during a full game installation. I just can't see Steam providing that kind of bandwidth to it's users when the filesizes can get upwards of 50gigs. They would DDOS themselves.

[kcb]

I regularly see consistent 80 - 90 MB/s from Steam downloads. CDNs are powerful things.

[vel0city]

The Steam client starts to throttle its network throughput based on disk performance these days. I've got games installed on SSDs and on spinning rust, and I'll see download speeds back off on the spinning rust while it unpacks files despite there being plenty of resources to cache files otherwise. This is very different from the times where it would attempt to download everything first and then begin to unpack files.

[scarface74]

I can’t get more than 430/430 wireless with either my laptop with 802.11ac or my iPhone. My old 802.11n 5ghz laptop gets around 100/100. I have the bundled modem from AT&T with gigabit internet.

Not that it’s a big deal all of our bedrooms, living room, and office are wired for gig-e.

[mrguyorama]

>Residential gig pipes are not uncommon anymore

I'm not convinced here in the US, although maybe it is slightly more common in those who download lots of games or updates