Why does steam download so slow? - SOLVED

There is a Win 10 & 11 bug that limits download and upload. This is what worked for me. I spent hours researching what to do, and just copy and paste this in command prompt one line at a time, and it WILL fix it if you had the same windows bug that I had. (You might have to enter it again after a couple updates. Apparently windows still doesn’t realize it yet…)
NETWORK FIX Win 10 & 11
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /renew and press Enter. (This will stall for a moment.)
netsh int ip reset and press Enter. (Don't restart yet.)
netsh winsock reset
netsh interface tcp show global
netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=normal

Simply great video!

Thanks a million from 2mbs to 40mbs, much appreciated, got frustrated with the low download speed from steam, you are a star. Thanks a mill😊

your volume is so low i have to turn my stereo all the way up hear you. fix it dude

i dont have the option what do i do????

Thank you for this video, was stuck at 11 MB/s finally got back up to 60MB/s. Literally have watched so many videos and this is the only one to help.

Any reason mine doesn't have a link speed duplex option?

if your game is downloading slow (60mbps) Its prolly ur hard rive download it on SSD so its faster (600 mbps)

i just turned off and on my wifi by accident that worked..

ur the only fix. thanks so much

omg thank you soo much!!

yooo thanks alot

I usually listen to videos at 20 but I had to turn all the way up. sounds like your microphone is on the other side of the room.

But yeah I know I have good internet because Im on the max bundle from virgin media, highest internet they have, got a new router at the start of the year. Steam is the ONLY thing that is slow and yeah its all devices.. but I stress again, it is literally the ONLY thing that is slow. everything else is giving me the download speed my internet is capable of achieving. I also know it isnt my pc or "crappy wifi" because my friends also complain about this issue, 1 of which are also on the highest speed virgin media have.

I tweaked everything and done my changed and its still slow.
I do wanna note though. it doesn't start off slow.. it does start off giving me what my internet provides and is good, then around 12%(typically) steam just dies and it sits at 0 for a while as if im not connects then will only give me slow speeds. again this ONLY happens with steam. literally nothing else.

Thanks it worked getting 30MB/s instead of 5 now

I get completely different screens and cant get to the settings you specify. Seems like every time you update windows they change the UI. I have the exact problem addressed here. We have 1gb internet. My son gets 100-200mb/sec on steam. Meanwhile I get at max a rush at first when DLing a game of like maybe 80-90mb/sec. then drifts off to 0 mb and most of the time and then will get like 5-20 mb. Tried different speed tests and unsurprisingly the one provided by xfinity shows 600 mb/sec upload of 100. I went to whatsmyisp speedtest and it shows 64mb/sec dl. Steam is extremely slow.

EDIT: Both computers are hardwired no wi-fi

thanks alot, my speed went from 3.6 to 3.6

I get sub 40 mbps on steam, but over 200 mbps on the speedtester..

I had a 2.5 option is that better?

still did not help me

what i dont understand. xbox game pass downloads super fast

I got no such option as link speed and duplex

im stuck at 3mb/s and this didnt work, any other suuggestion?

My internet speed is fine but on my pc it would fluctuate up and down after a couple minutes downloading to the point it wouldnt download anymore. Then i noticed steam uses up alot of disk space, it would always sit at 100%, so i uninstalled steam and reinstalled, now it works, it use to peak at 8 Mbps now it has peaked at 81.2 Mbps, sits comfortably at 73 Mbps while disk usage is 25%, somtimes it jumps to 100% while it writes to the hard drive. After trying everything a simple reinstall of steam worked 😆

did nothing for me

yeah no this doesnt work.
no linkspeed or duplex option for me shows up and im NOT on a vm

my network adapter is RZ608 wifi 6e 80mhz and there is no option like the one you show. any other options ?

Thanks

Changing it from Auto to 1GPS made everything so much better. Thanks for this.

Would this work on windows for Mac? My download speeds used to be very good and then it randomly changed to 30 mbps. I cannot find the duplex option in the properties tab

I reset it and tried and it went from 13 to 18 Mb/s but my original download speed before steam randomly did this was at highest 65-70 MB/s so I mean it buffed it by 5 but I want my original download speed back

Mine went from 15 mb/s to 1 mb/s

Changing this setting disconnected my Ethernet.

Hey , I'm trying to install steam on my laptop but it's not working during updating its goes to 50k, 60k Kb and then came back , I lost almost 7gb mobile data just trying to install it ... please point a solution.

For me the download speed was at 1 MB/s before i started at Auto setting. I tried setting the speed to 1GB but then my Ethernet just went offline and didn't reconnect. I set it back to Auto and my downspeed climbed to what it should be normally.

its just my steam deck. Soooo slow.

Thanks, fixed my problem!

TY SO MUCH BOSS YOUR A LIFESAVER BEEN FRAKIN TF OUT FOR WEEKS AFTER DOING A COMPLETE RESET !!

no link speed

I am still sitting at 300Kbs lmao

Been having 2MB/s hardstuck download speed on steam and working fine everywhere else with my 500Mbps network. I changed from auto to 1GB/s option and now I'm back to 60+ MB/s on steam as before. Thanks for bringing this issue to the light. Been going crazy the past month and this really helped me reinstalling my games after doing a full reset on my pc

Thx mate it went from 3 b/s to 16b/s

thanks works finaly for me :D ( no slow Steam Download Speed anymore) got max 4,5 MB/s now up to 60 MB/s