How to Maximize Steam Download Speed?

[Howl Pendragon]

Hey guys, I have an important question that I need a good answer to. Normally, my steam downloads get up to 2Mbps, but right now, I'm only getting 300-500kbps. Is there any way that I can max this out easily?

Change router settings, etc?

 

[FREESTYLEkill3r]

You can always try changing your download location to somewhere with less traffic.
Also, I set my settings to Cable/Fiber >10M, and that seems to help my download speed a bit. It also could be going slower depending on the time of day it is, and whether or not Steam has a popular deal, which increases download traffic.

(Though I'm sure someone has a better fix than me )

 

[Howl Pendragon]

Ahh ok Thanks for the help. Do you have any location suggestions? I've changed my settings to Cable/Fiber >10M.

 

[RustyPwns!]

Close steam. Go to C>Program Files>Steam then delete ClientRegistry.blob Then restart steam

It's not your internet it's just all the traffic from tf2 downloads.

 

[FREESTYLEkill3r]

Ahh ok Thanks for the help. Do you have any location suggestions? I've changed my settings to Cable/Fiber >10M.

Check out Steam server status here, to see which one has the lowest population.

Hope I helped even more ^^

 

[_Sushi]

Check out Steam server status here, to see which one has the lowest population.

Hope I helped even more ^^

This one is more detailed.

 

[Naku_vamp]

well it could also depend on what your downloading, i had to re install css a while back (although a popular game not many people are buying/downloading at a time) it downloaded rather quickly but i predownloaded dragon age back when it first released took almost 2 wholes days due to the mass amount of people downloading it at a time (not to mention the 15gb size either) but yeah traffic has alot to do with it

 

[Snipeye]

Moved this to Tech Help, as the question is more appropriate for that forum.

Thanks for the responses so far everyone.

 

[eurocracy]

Downloading at hours that people won;t usually be running steam at for your area will often boost speed.