so i'm a first time steam user and i get my first game of steam the orange box and here i am 2 days later and it's only half way is this just me or is this the standard
well here it ses just south of 10gigcreationis apostate said:Then again TF2 is more updates than the original -_-' Seriously. The original was 3 gig I think. There are now 5 gigs of updates.imnotparanoid said:Well Tf 2 took me 4 hours so mabey a day? but thats just ssilly, try changing the download server.
OT: what needs to be said has been said people before.
Sounds like a firewall/port issue to me. There is a minor amount of peer to peer hosting involved with Steam ... this would account for you getting anything at all. But if your ports are blocked to standard download protocols it would definately extend your downloads, while the system finds access points.Hamish Durie said:my internet connaction isn't bad but it leaves something ro be desired in most games it's roughly 90 ping if that means anything also i know not to out it in sleep
Your australian right I think that has something to do with it since my download rate is 800 killerbites per second yet steam drops down to 30kbpsHamish Durie said:my internet connaction isn't bad but it leaves something ro be desired in most games it's roughly 90 ping if that means anything also i know not to out it in sleep
Which region/server are you using? I'm using Australia - NSW (Telstra) and I'm also getting somewhere between 40 - 120 KB/s.Hamish Durie said:actually it fluxuates going from 120kb to 30kb also is that why it's loading slow because i'm in australia
I live in Australia too and that's about the speed I usually get when downloading off of Steam. If you're really lucky some games may reach speeds of 300kbs but, I've noticed that this is a very rare speed when downloading through Steam.Hamish Durie said:actually it fluxuates going from 120kb to 30kb also is that why it's loading slow because i'm in australia