Just downloaded a game from Steam. It's the first time I've downloaded something from there since many months ago when i bought Fallout 4. And while playing Fallout 4, I downloaded it about 20 to 25 times. Yes, all 28 to 30 gigs. I have good speeds so it always took less than a half an hour. I also downloaded some other games during that time and got used to a certain number... 23.5. I would always get 23.5MBps. I would watch it rise from 3 to 8 to 13 etc and always it peak at about 23.5.

Until today. It got to 23.5... and kept going! And going!!! And going!!!! 29.5MBs.

WTF? Same ISP, same ISP package. Same Steam????(or did Steam somehow get faster)?

Anyone else notice faster download speeds on sites? I haven't tried GOG yet, but my speeds here are always much slower because I use the browser since I do not use the client.

Did the internets get an upgrade and nobody told me? LOL

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This is cute little "RPG" that is short, but I found very fun and kind of neat. It can be done in a single setting if you want. It's called "Hero of the Kingdom" and it's a Steam game and anyone that is interested needs to change the "X"'s above to "2"s and the "Z"s to "N"s. At least I think that's right. LOL.

Does it stay constantly that high (23.5 or 29.4 Mbytes/s)? Damn that is fast, do you have a gigabit internet connection at home or what?

I have a 10Mbit/s cable modem, so I get around 1.2MBytes/s on both Steam and GOG (just tried it on Steam when it downloaded upgrades for TeamFortress 2). I am generally ok with this speed, it does everything I need it to do... but just to think that people like you have well over 20x faster internet? I don't have that fast internet even at our work (I think it is a 100Mbit/s connection so I guess I'd get max something like 12Mbytes/s there).

Yeah, it stayed above 28 the whole time. Most of the time it was 29.4 to 29.5, with a couple dips down into the 28.7/8 range. It was... amazing. LOL. I've never had anything like that at any site before.

But yeah, I do always get over 20 at Steam and the last time I used the gog downloader IIRC it also peaked at about 22.

EDIT: Oops, didn't the see the first question. No, I don't think I have a gigabit internet connection here.

I know this is off-topic, but the question must be answered for the sake of this thread....how old are you?

I will answer that the same way I always do when asked because the last time I answered with a number, people older would come back and say "ppfffffft.... you call yourself "oldfatguy" while some people close to me would say "wait, I'm the same age and I don't call myself old"

So my answer is this: The President of the United States on the day I was born was Dwight D. Eisenhower. And I've heard you're only as old as you feel anyway, so in that case I'm about 145.

Sorry if that doesn't satisfy you.

Pffft. And you call yourself "OldFatGuy".

All that speed for nothin.... Game won't run.

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I'm wondering if the Dyn DNS DDoS would have any effect. Supposedly it's affected quite a few major services, including Netflix. Video streaming today takes up a massive proportion of internet traffic. If such a service were offline, would that reduction in traffic realistically make a difference for some people downloading games from Steam?

So your suggesting the attack is a concerted effort by gamers to improve download speeds? ;P

It's a good point actually, a lot of pretty big sites seem to have been hit, so it's feasible that general internet traffic has been greatly reduced...

Drats... so I can't expect these speeds to continue? ratzenfratzenwhateverzen

On the positive side...... I GOT THE GAME RUNNING!!!!

Drakensang is a great, albeit difficult (IMO) RPG that I had tons of fun with in the past but never finished.... I'm determined this time dammit..... LOL


EDIT: BTW, the only way I could get it to run was to run it in windowed mode. And my old eyes need things to be as big as possible but when I select an in game resolution that takes advantage of the whole screen..... the taskbar hides the bottom. Isn't there a way to temporarily hide the taskbar??? (WINDOWS 10)????

I see that type of spike a lot, although usually it's with resuming data. If I pause a 1Gb download, then resume it, I have for a little while a 1Gb/s download rate. Although over the next minutes it actually goes to the real speed.

This ultimately means there's a glitch/bug with how it calculates the rates.

Maybe your neighbour is away :P

ISP upgrade services for free is not uncommon for my region.

Internet is super complex and hardly to get a simple "upgrade".

Speeds are always going up. Part of that competitive market thing. Also, you're in the USA. Remember that panic a while back when the FCC stepped in and people said they would censor everything and make everything worse?

Faster, cheaper internet is the result of classifying broadband as a utility. Yay!

Thanks for saying how you got it to run. I have had the same problem. I will try your solution.