{"id":6871,"date":"2022-12-12T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T10:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2022-12-12T10:41:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T10:41:15","slug":"steam-download-speed-too-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/steam-download-speed-too-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam download speed too slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need to down load something large on <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/\">Steam<\/a> to my W11 laptop, the speed is truly terrible, so I go to google and there&#8217;s plenty of help. Here&#8217;s my notes &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I found <a href=\"https:\/\/windowsreport.com\/steam-slow-download\/\">a page<\/a> which said to <em>update one&#8217;s drivers<\/em>, use the Steam settings panel to clear the steam cache, change server regions and check using the steam settings panel that the download is not throttled. ; it also suggested changing some of the windows storage configurations and even turning off the anti-virus. There&#8217;s lots of advice out there.<\/p>\n<p>I tried using the Steam control panel options inc. a new server, I tried Ireland and Netherlands but they made little difference, so I ran <code>ccleaner<\/code> to update my drivers and that has certainly made it faster. There&#8217;s some more drivers to update but I&#8217;ll let Steam finish the download first.<\/p>\n<p>Another lesson that once one asks for advice, it may be best to take it. <em><strong>TLDR<\/strong> <\/em>update your drivers!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Actually I need to work out why ccleaner didn&#8217;t tell me about the outstanding updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to down load something large on Steam to my W11 laptop, the speed is truly terrible, so I go to google and there&#8217;s plenty of help. Here&#8217;s my notes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6,27,3],"tags":[914,1868,911],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-networking","category-software","category-technology","tag-networking","tag-steam","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/steam-uncertain-biggercropped.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}