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When you're talking about 3GB, sure. If you look at video games, a lot of your AAA games are coming in at 12-70GB or even 100GB. Certain games (I'm looking at y
by pathartl 7y ago
When you're talking about 3GB, sure. If you look at video games, a lot of your AAA games are coming in at 12-70GB or even 100GB. Certain games (I'm looking at you PUBG) also don't optimize their updates, so some updates can be upwards of 10-15GB. Once you get into that realm time really does become a factor.
I'm on 400/25 and I always dread installing Battlefield 4 after a fresh install. I think it's around 60-70GB right now and takes around 45 minutes to get everything downloaded.
- montecarl 7y agoToo bad steam has trouble hitting even 100mbit/s on my gig fiber connection. In fact I find that many services seem to throttle at exactly 100mbit/s, e.g. Dropbox.
- penagwin 7y agoI had this exact issue then found out either my cable or port on my router was bad, and was only initiating a 100mbps link. Steam can hit 40MBps (over 300mbps) regularly for me. I find what you say to be true though, most services can't saturate my link - but I'd double check because exactly 100mbps is suspicious. Also don't use speedtest.net, try fast.com (run by netflix) - ISPS are known to "cheat" on speedtest.net (they can host a speedtest server inside their network) but fast.com downloads actual movie fragments from netflix's cdn.
- pathartl 7y agoMight need to check something out. I saturate my 400mbit connection. Now PSN on the other hand... last time I used it Sony artificially limited it to something like 20mbit.
- mijamo 7y agoSteam can saturate a 10Gbits/s in Stockholm so I doubt it wouldn't be hitting 100mbit/s on your connection. Dropbox does not throttle at 100mbit/s either. Maybe it's a problem with your ISP or your router?
- eloisant 7y agoI constantly max my 1GBps connection when downloading from Steam. I suspect they have a CDN node in my ISP's datacenter.