How can I make steam download games faster?

[MrLordofcoffeHD]

I've found myself waiting hours on end for games to download on steam. I know that this tends to be the norm, but I find it going unusually slow. I have 500 m/b/s home plugs that were recommended to me, yet it still takes an age to download games. Also, I have found that the game will stop downloading and will say it needs an update, yet when I click play on that game, it carries on. Is there anyway to boost the speed of which it downloads?

 

[bluehowell]

There is not much you can do except make sure the download settings are correct http://wccftech.com/article/speed-steam-downloads-significantly/

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

No. Other than keeping up your end of the pipeline functioning, which means having a computer and connection that is not slowing down the rate at which you can receive content from Steam, there is nothing you can do. You can try changing your locale, but if you are up against a limit that Steam has placed on users, this probably won't help.

If you're not already aware, once you have downloaded a game you can back up the local content in case you ever need to reinstall it, and instead of re downloading the whole game again, restore the backup, at which point the only content downloaded would be any updates released since you created the backup.

 

[MrLordofcoffeHD]

No. Other than keeping up your end of the pipeline functioning, which means having a computer and connection that is not slowing down the rate at which you can receive content from Steam, there is nothing you can do. You can try changing your locale, but if you are up against a limit that Steam has placed on users, this probably won't help.

If you're not already aware, once you have downloaded a game you can back up the local content in case you ever need to reinstall it, and instead of re downloading the whole game again, restore the backup, at which point the only content downloaded would be any updates released since you created the backup.

thank you for your response