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by Sander_Marechal 1008 days ago
Steam downloads are so terribly slow. I can suck down 100Gb during a cup of coffee using my browser, bittorrent or even the (yuck) Epic Game Store. But with Steam it takes multiple hours. I have tried to diagnose the problem but as far as I can tell it's because Steam uses really aggressive compression and they process each block as it is downloaded. This causes the download to stall and wait for the CPU to catch up.
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Curious. I have been getting full download speeds from Steam with no issues.
strange, i was hitting ~20mbps when downloading armored core vi.