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I am trying to download some games I bought today from Steam. Using Web Africa's Free Zone'd servers but the speeds are quite poor... I get a max of about 70KBps, sometimes dropping to 35KBps for a few minutes at a time. I have a 6Mbps line that downloads everything else at full speed.
Any suggestions?
I think the local (probably even international) content mirrors are getting hammered, I can also only manage 70-90kB/s from the Mweb mirror.
Yep I'm also getting very slow speeds on my 4Mb line, around about 60KB/s :(.
Damn! I was hoping there was a setting I could change to crank it! Are the downloads always this slow or is it probably server overload from the summer sale?
Are you guys forcing your systems to use the WA steam server? I would like to exclusively start using it, but don't know how to force it.
I swapped to UK server and magically got 200-250KBs over using CT/JHB. Pipes must be shaped or something....
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthre...=1#post6410671
Same here, maybe the servers are overloaded or they are shaping it in anticipation of people downloading the games from the summer sale.
CrazyLegs has a great blog about it here:Quote:
Originally Posted by MrG
http://forums.webafrica.co.za/showth...A-Steam-Server
Used his setup and just since yesterday I've done over 10GB's all FreeZoned :D
Yes when downloads from the content servers +- double due to specials then naturally things slow down.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
I would say get onto the WAGE forums, they're usually very helpful there.