Internet dies when downloading from Steam - eviltoast

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

  • GigaFlop@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.