Steam allows you to move your Steam folder-which is at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam by default-to another hard drive. One way to speed up all your games-and Steam itself-is by getting a solid-state drive (SSD) and installing Steam to it. RELATED: What Is a Solid State Drive (SSD), and Do I Need One? Steam still provides a page that shows you the amount of download activity happening in different regions, including statistics about the difference in download speeds in different US states, but this information isn’t as useful. Steam once provided information about content server load, which allowed you to select a regional server that wasn’t under high-load, but this information is no longer available.
A server a bit farther away could be faster if your local server is more congested, for example. In some cases, the closest server might not be the fastest. You may want to restart Steam and see if your download speeds improve after changing this setting. While you’re on this tab, make sure that Steam’s download bandwidth doesn’t have a limit applied.
The above process achieves the same as deleting the "clientregistry.blob" file, but is much quicker as the Steam client itself does not need to update.In the “Settings” window, switch to the “Downloads” tab, and then select the closest download server from the “Download Region” dropdown menu. Odly enough, I get the quickest download speeds from the Italy servers - even though Ireland now has its own content servers (which took a lot of effort to get Valve to set up, but they did so which is the main thing!)
As all of the Steam content servers are numbered, you can also check which server you are download from here. Keep trying this process until the Steam download max's your Internet connection download speed. This will force Steam to re-look for a server, and it should pick the best one that will give you the quickest download speed. Right click on the Steam TCP connection and choose "close connection". Look for Steam connections of type TCP (not UDP) in the list As a result, you have to do a little bit of tweaking to find the best server to download from. There is no way within Steam to select what content server you wish to download from.
There is an issue whereby this does not always work out too well and a far away content server is selected to download from, or else the game you are attempting to download on is not being hosted on the content server Steam normally connects you to and as a result your Steam client will connect to one of the "main" content servers, which may be far away from where you are. Steam uses a algorithm whereby Steam attempts to search for the closest and fastest content server for you, the client, to download from. Hey guys, I thought I would post this little handy trick for anyone getting slow download speeds on Steam.
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