What's your fastest Steam download? : Othor Games

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:23 am

Decided to make this thread after I picked my jaw up off of the ground...
I bought Dead Island a couple minutes ago and started downloading it while playing Warband. I minimize it to see I am downloading near 10(TEN)mb/s. Never, ever seen it that high.

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Anyone else?

PS, this is on a college network too...

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:18 am

Probably Poker Night at the Inventory.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:31 pm

My home internet connection is throttled to 20 Mb/s, so mine are pretty consistently around 2.5 MB/s. 10 MB/s is pretty darn fast.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:00 am

I don't think I've ever seen any files go higher than 2.8 MB/s or so. Usually it's around 1.5 - 2.5

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 4:36 am

~3.0MB/s is also the highest I've seen with 2.0-2.5MB/s being common.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:11 pm

God, where do you guys live to get such fast internet? I'm so damn jelly.

My PDR is only 690KB/S, which is the fastest I've ever had. Though I do live in a fairly rural area, so my options are pretty limited (between what I have now and Dish, but whatever Verizon offers is supposed to be moving out this way, so perhaps I'll look into that).

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:13 am

1.5MBs...
Wideband is available in my area but don't want to pay 99.99 a month for it..

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:29 am

I average 0 baud from Steam.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:40 pm

God, where do you guys live to get such fast internet? I'm so damn jelly.

Same here. The fastest I've seen is 400KB/s. :brokencomputer: :swear: AT&T and their refusal to upgrade the DSL lines in my area (while simultaneously holding a monopoly over high speed internet in the region)...

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:20 am

Same here. The fastest I've seen is 400KB/s. :brokencomputer: :swear: AT&T and their refusal to upgrade the DSL lines in my area (while simultaneously holding a monopoly over high speed internet in the region)...

They are pretty much refusing to upgrade DSL everywhere, and are planning on pulling DSL offerings in places that have U-Verse.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:56 pm

You need that kind of speed with those 9GB patches.

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» Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:13 pm

1.3 mb/s because that's the fastest I can download here.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:54 pm

I get about 12Mb/s down so about 1.4-1.5MB/s.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:25 am

Saw almost 900 KB/s yesterday. I didn't know data can be transfered that fast

You need that kind of speed with those 9GB patches.

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New Vegas tried that one me. Stopping it and verifying the game cache reduced it to 300MB :hehe:

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:18 am

500 KB/s :brokencomputer:

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:02 pm

500 KB/s :brokencomputer:

Ditto, that's probably the fastest I've seen. (It's not terribly consistent, either)

Needless to say, the idea of downloading full PC games (not just indie stuff) isn't something I generally consider.

Suburb of Pittsburgh, Comcast cable. Not Rural Nowhere, USA.....

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:48 pm

Maybe 2.2 or 2.3 MB/s peak, average is probably around 1.5.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:47 am

Average: 2.5MB/s
Fastest 3.2-3.3MB/s

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 1:26 am

i get no more than 600 KB/s on a very good day when nobody else is using the internet. i am supposed to get 8 Mbits/sec, but it never happened... (for the less tech savvy- 8 Mbits/s = 1MByte/s)

Bit is lowercase
Eg. Mb

Byte -Uppercase
Eg. MB

NOW YOU KNOW!

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:40 am

Ditto, that's probably the fastest I've seen. (It's not terribly consistent, either)

Needless to say, the idea of downloading full PC games (not just indie stuff) isn't something I generally consider.

Suburb of Pittsburgh, Comcast cable. Not Rural Nowhere, USA.....

Did you change your settings to connect with your closest server. There is a server in Pittsburgh, PA. The one in Washington DC is good.. OH! And there is a Comcast one now, hmm...

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:52 am

I probably top at around 1.2 to 1.5mbps with my 10mbps connection. Though when downloading multiple items it's a straightup pain because it splits my connection up which drops it to around 500 to 600 kbps per item. Think the fastest download I ever had was Borderlands at around 1.4mbps maybe 1.6 if I was lucky on that particular day. Tempted to call up Brighthouse and ask em to drop a 40mbps line since i'm making videos, but the price tag is a bit steep.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:05 am

At my university, I have gone up to 5-6 MB/s during off-hours. At home i average around 1-1.5 MB/s

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 11:46 pm

Did you change your settings to connect with your closest server. There is a server in Pittsburgh, PA. The one in Washington DC is good.. OH! And there is a Comcast one now, hmm...

Ooh, nice tip. Yeah, I was set to Chicago. Guess I'll see how it goes next time I try something (got a Deus Ex code with my new GPU, so there's something I need to download.

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» Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:10 pm

Maybe around 12kb on a good day.

» Wed Dec 07, 2011 5:21 am

There was that one time I got like 6kb/s :sadvaultboy: