Slow Download Speed After Last Update(s)

[jeffisabelle]

First, sorry for asking a noobish question on the bug tracker but I'm having really difficult time on downloading games today.

I have read and tried everything stated on here; https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1456-EUDN-2493

I don't see anything wrong on my console output. http://paste.ubuntu.com/5848041/

I haven't been using steam for a while, I fire up it today to buy L4D2, it made some updates (I'm not sure how many updates steam got last week), I've also updated ubuntu itself today.

After getting steam running and downloading almost 1gig of L4D2, the speed got really slow, I mean it drops to bytes per seconds. (Man, I could count the 1-0 bits that is downloading on that speed)

Then, I've tried everything I could find. I disabled my firewall on the router, I've reinstalled steam-launcher, I've deleted already downloaded content and tried to reinstall, I've changed download region from settings to several options. I've rebooted my machine and my modem several times. I've removed/moved some of the fancy .blob and .vdf files as suggested on the internet.

I thought this could be an issue with L4D2 itself, because it's free to play weekend etc. But I made 2 of my friends to buy this game just to support steam on linux and they were downloading just fine. Their downloads have finished hours ago, mine still says 'time remaining: 35 days'

I'm really sorry to asking this, but I'm not able to track the issue. Anybody can direct me?

note; I've downloaded several games on the same machine without problems some weeks ago. It just stopped to work.

Thank's in advance.

[nmirthes]

Have you tried opting-in to the Steam client beta?

[jeffisabelle]

Just tried that, It updated the client. (fastly) Still downloads are around bytes/seconds.

update: I'm getting an error like below, and steam client crashes.

Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy ''] /tmp/dumps/crash_20130706031543_1.dmp /home/jeffisabelle/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 704: 3358 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@" Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = no error: HTTP response code said error

update2: when I restarted steam it starts downloading nicely 800kb/sec then it slows down in 10-20 seconds. and the client is pretty unstable It always crashing with different errors without even touching anything.

[jeffisabelle]

the client crashes after half an hour. It has crashed almost 10 times since yesterday. here is the crash log, http://paste.ubuntu.com/5849594/ and relevant dump file: http://muhammetcan.net/dosya/dump.tar.gz

though, I'm not sure if it's relevant to my downloading issue.

btw, current version is the most unstable version I've ever get since the very first day of steam on linux.

[tr37ion]

I have the same issue since months. Downloading the same games with Windows or Linux is very different in speed. The Windows download is max. whereas the Linux download is fast for 5 seconds then it drops to nearly 20kB/s!!! With 10MBit/s ISP download speed this is no more fun :(

[disordered]

I am having similar problems, except that my speed rarely goes above 2MB/s (16mbps). On the same machine on windows I am downloading at 10-11MB/s. I think the problem started around summer sale, but I am not certain. I tried Ubuntu 13.04, Linux Mint Debian, Arch Linux and Manjaro - all have exactly the same problem. I also tried on 3 different computers and two different ISPs (both with 100mbps line). I also tried changing download speed limit in the settings, it seems to have no effect.

You might find more information in Steam support ticket: 8930-DGKL-9226

[href]

I have had the same issue for months now. No problem on OSX or Windows in the same network (100mbit). What's curious is that restarting steam, or pausing and then resuming the download will lead to a short 10 seconds burst of 4MB/s, after which it goes back down to 0-10KB/s.

[loisgomez]

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/2573

[Mailaender]

This has improved since the latest update (of Steam or KDE 4.12?). I now get proper max download peaks and a mediocre average that could be busy servers. Far away from the 10 Byte/s nonsense. Was Steam maybe too passive about claiming bandwidth usage like when there is another app, throttle too much down?

[NoXPhasma]

I have the same behaviour here, 150 MBit network but Steam gives me very low download speed. It jumps up to 1 Megabyte/s sometimes for a few seconds and then again down to somewhat like 10 - 100 KB/s. On Windows I get always full speed, up to 19 Megabyte/s on downloads.

Steam downloads are the only network related stuff which has such low speeds on my Linux machine.

I'm connected via LAN cable to my router, so there are no WLAN issues involved here.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @jeffisabelle, are you still experiencing this issue with an up to date system?

[kisak-valve]

Closing pending feedback.

[tr37ion]

Personally, I can't verify against Windows anymore (Linux only). I didn't experience this behaviour of dropping bandwidth for quite some time. I would say it is fixed.