Windows 10: Getting extremely slow download speeds for Steam since upgrading to Windows 11

It will download at 1 MB/sec and it only does that like once every 10 seconds, otherwise it's 0 MB/sec!I tried clearing Download Cache in Steam and restarting and that didn't help.I tried selecting a different Steam server and that didn't help.When I ran Windows 10 I never had any problem downloading Steam games and always had high download speeds!!Please help!!

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Extremely slow download speeds in Steam with Windows 10


I recently downloaded Windows 10 and am having awful download speeds compared to what they were with Windows 7. With Windows 7 I averaged about 9.8MB/s. With Windows 10 I am getting 400KB/s max. At one point after restarting steam, the download went all the way up to 1024KB/S, but only for about 5 seconds until returning back to around 345KB/s. I read a similar problem somewhere where McAfee was causing slow Steam download speeds, and after uninstalling it the speeds returned to normal. Perhaps the Security in Windows 10 could be the problem? I tried disabling the Firewall and turning on Windows Defender but had no luck. Any other suggestions? Thanks!

 

slow download speed except steam

My download speed is very slow when i want to download something from firefox or chrome (around 200kb/s)

But when i download games from steam it is much faster(1-2mb)

I already did speedtests but my steam download speed is much faster than the download speed in the speedtest?

 

Extremely slow download speeds in Steam with Windows 10

Blizzard Entertainment uses the bittorrent protocol for downloading their games and updates, so you actually get the game/updates from other users instead of directly from the Blizzard servers.

Steam on the other hand uses a different protocol for their downloads and updates and they have a server distribution network (that picks the best server based on your geolocation) and downloads from there using TCP. You have thousands and thousands of other people getting their games and updates from the same server as you, so things can be slow sometimes.

I've got 15Mbps fiber optic and even Steam downloads for me (Windows 8.1 and Windows 10) can be slow sometimes and download at like 400kb/s even though I have my downloads throttled at 1.5mb/s (downloading from Boston server).

Then again I don't have Wildblue either, I hear they were really awful at managing their networks. lol