I’ve had a weird issue with Steam lately.

Whenever I go to download a game on my pc, it will download fine, but I will lose internet for everything else on my network until the download is complete or I stop the download.

At first I thought this might be an issue with my ISP, but this doesn’t happen when downloading a game from my Steamdeck.

Anyone have any fixes for this?

Here is a speedtest if this helps at all: https://www.speedtest.net/result/15012239449

    • vettnerk@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 年前

      This. Link instability and packet loss is common when the link is being utilized to its max theoretical capacity, as opposed to your ISP having a soft bandwidth cap.

      Cap your download speed in steam settings 20% lower than your max download speed (possibly lower) to give the link layer some breathing room.

      Source: Network-dude by trade.

      • Kuro@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        1 年前

        I tried throttling it down to 1/3 of my max and still had the same problem

    • Kuro@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 年前

      I just tried various limits, and still having the same issue

      I have a 500Mbps symmetrical fiber connection

  • dlove67@feddit.nlEnglish
    3·
    1 年前

    Sounds like steam is saturating your connection, as the other user said, limit your download speed to somewhere below your connection speed.

    The steamdeck may be fine because it had a slower wifi connection.

  • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social
    2·
    1 年前

    Rare, but it could be a nat table exhaustion. My old ‘commander’ modem would do the same thing if I opened a bittorrent client.

    Try a free or trial VPN like tunnelbear to see if this is the cause. It’s probably not, but it’s one more thing you can try.

    • Kuro@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 年前

      You might be onto something there, doesn’t seem to be happening when connected to a VPN

  • GigaFlop@kbin.social
    2·
    1 年前

    Ive acc had this for years, steam just seems to be a massive network hog. I think it might have something to do with a router setting, but my solution is to set my download speed cap to around 2mb/s below my internet speed (i have 8mb/s internet) and that seems to do fine.