

In case you hang up at night to download heavy games, you should remove Steam's Download speed limit to achieve the fastest system speed. How to Remove Steam's Download Speed Limit In this case you need to set the Download speed limit for Steam to 4000 KB/s.ģ. Normally, for other devices or other network tasks to work stably, without too much lag, you should set Steam's Download speed to 50% of the Download speed of the Internet in use.įor example: The network you are using has a Download speed of about 64000 Kbps – equivalent to 8000 KB/s (to convert to KB/s, please divide by 8). Step 2: After having the Download speed of the network you are using, you proceed to set up Steam's Download speed limit. Step 1: You proceed to access SpeedTest and click Go to check the current network speed. If you do not know that you need to limit Steam's download speed accordingly, you have to calculate a bit between the network speed of the package you are using and your needs: How to choose the right download speed limit for Steam This is our result after limiting Steam's Download speed, you will see the system display the message: 'Throttling Limited To…'.Ģ. Step 4: When you have set the Download speed limit parameter to complete, select Apply to apply the changes and select OK to finish the installation. The table to convert units GB/s, MB/s to KB/s is as follows:įor example: If you want to limit Steam's Download speed to 2 MB/s, enter 2000 in the Enter a new value below field. When you enter download speed limits, remember that they use KB/s and you must convert if you want to enter the exact speed you want. Step 3: At this point, the Enter a new value below dialog box will appear and this is the place to help you limit Steam's Download speed. The Download section of the Steam Client appears, then find the line Limit Bandwidth to - Limit bandwidth when Downloading and tick them. Step 2: The Settings window will give you a lot of different settings, but we are looking for a way to limit the Download speed, so we will select the Download item in the list on the left. Then, select Steam => Settings to view the settings of the Steam Client. Step 1: Open the Steam application on your computer. How to limit the download speed of Steam Client To solve this problem, you must set up Steam's download speed limit (Download) so that other devices still have enough bandwidth to connect to the Internet during Steam's game download. In this case, if you only use one device connected to the Internet, there will be no problem, but if you use many devices, the other devices will have super slow network speeds. This reason comes from the fact that when Steam downloads the game, the Client will use almost 100% of the Internet bandwidth to bring the game to the computer in the fastest way.


If you are new to Steam, you will find that when downloading, downloading a game will make your network system slow down a lot.
