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Currently downloading a game, over my 40MBit/sec FTC ADSL link ... at 45~75 bytes / second ... This could take a while ... 
bytes / second?
BYTES / second?
For Elephants Sake! I haven't seen speeds that low for over a decade, when I dumped dial up...
It needs 13GB of disk space, so we're looking at what? A 5GB download?
Oh, no, it's down to 4 bytes / second...
1 byte / second ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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...and the moment that it finishes, the sun will begin its red giant phase and incinerate the planet.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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When I have to install a Steam game, I always plan at least four to six hours.
And the most frustrating is, when I play a Steam game, it must not download anything at the same time; Steam downloads make games lag awfully. It also means that, when I download, I cannot play 
I never finish anyth
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phil.o wrote: when I play a Steam game, it must not download anything at the same time
First it has to download the 80Mb update to the steamclient itself..
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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So true!
It reminds me... often, I have to launch it twice, as it cannot "connect to Steam network" the first time. And I'm sure it's not a network or internet issue. This bug even survived numerous client updates.
It happens since so long now that I even accepted it as normal.
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Ditto, but I do have a bad connection, so it may actually be true from time to time 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It's a feature
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Interesting, when you start a game Steam usually pauses all downloads.
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Yes, but you can deactivate that feature.
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Well, Griff you do know it is network. Maybe your system gets 40MB cap and theirs don't get 1MB or even, half. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Wow, really?
My FIOS connection officially gives me 50Mbit up and down, though I usually get 60... My downloads from Steam usually hover around 35-40Mbps, but sometimes peak in the 50-55 range.
So no complaints here... I'm a big fan of Steam.
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I'm with Ian on this one. The last game I downloaded on Steam was about 5 gigs and it only took about 10 minutes. That's somewhere around 66-67 MBit/s. I'm also in the US, so maybe that helps.
Have you checked for sheep chewing on wires?
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Yeah, and I'm on my fourth Steam server: currently getting 75KB/s which frankly is laughable - I could get it faster and with less hassle illegally via a torrent... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm eager to see my download speed for Fallout 4 !!!
28gigs.
I'm gonna bust my quota.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I don't have a quota, but I just checked and it's 11GB not 5.
Interestingly, the transfer rate has just risen to 3.4MB/sec, with a peak of 4.4.
Transfer estimate is now down from 5 years to 37 minutes... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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At this rate it'd be quicker to just type in the game's full source.
In binary.
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 I ordered (and pay) the cheapest the cheapest Service and it works very fine.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Do they have peer enabled option? If yes, disable it. This option sometimes spams your connection and some over vigilant ISPs might throttle the connection.
I remember Rogers in Canada had a lot of troubles with World of Warcraft over similar issues.
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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While I respect your attempt to go 100% green-palaeo to save the planet, I really think you should consider going back to using electricity from the grid. I mean, there's only so much juice in sheep.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I did that not that long ago.
The download finished. I went to play. It said it needed to download an update...
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You after seeing that:
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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To me the most annoying thing is that when you pause the download and restart your system, all the downloaded files are lost and you have to start over from the beginning  , and not to mention that annoying update to the steam client every 2 or 3 days
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Nabeel Bape wrote: annoying update to the steam client every 2 or 3 days
It was doing that over ten years ago, in the days of dial up.
You'd buy a game, install it, and try to run - but the Steam client would want to update first, so it's would slog your 56K connection for three quarters of an hour, then drop the link and die without completing. 
I got so fed up with it, I gave up trying to play Half Life and haven't been near any Steam game since...Eventually I bought an XBox 360 to play HL on, but that's another story.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Have you tried changing download region in the options?
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My friends, remember, that, without stupidity, there would be no intelligence, and, without ugliness, there would be no beauty, so, the world needs me after all.
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