Extremly slow steam update download speed

[Asteliks]

Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date):
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora
• Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
• Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
• GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080
• Issue recording:

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

For some reason steam is updating extremely slow. View the issue recording note that this much took 22 seconds. Other aplications seem to be working correctly. According to speed test my speeds look quite good:

Edit: for those wondering its been 40 minutes and its still going. Luckily ones updated the games download/update with the proper speed

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Wait for steam update
2. Open Steam
3. Feel the pain

[cchulo]

does the download server apply to client updates? because that's what OP is showing, a client update, not a game download

[neworld]

I have the same problem on both my Linux machines. Games are downloaded up to ~16MB/s, but the Steam client update is about 0.5 - 1 MB/s. I am using the closest download region, but I am not sure if it affects game download.

I am not sure, but maybe using 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1, instead of ISP's DNS server makes using the wrong CDN server?

[VinnaeV]

Here to report the same issue, on Pop_OS!, Steam installed from Pop Shop as a .deb.

I decided to opt-in into the beta due to being interested in the Game Recording Beta, and the client download is awfully slow, going at 10 kb/s, maybe 20 kb/s at best. Though I already experienced this in the past before I opted-in into a beta at all. Genuinely obnoxious that Steam for some reason decides to use a very slow CDN for this.

I think it's worth mentioning I am in Ecuador, and this didn't use to happen when I used Windows. It also doesn't happen here on Linux when downloading actual games through Steam (which reach between 20 Mb/s to 40 Mb/s, my max for my ISP's plan), just for updates for the Steam client itself.

My wild guess, without knowing much about how Steam downloads an update, would be this is probably happening because the CDN for Linux for Steam client updates is in some other country or something, and maybe I am throttled server-side due to the region difference.

[99Arrzel]

For me it's happening too My hack was just running steam with cli, checking which files is downloading and then download here /home/USER/.steam/debian-installation/package using wget. awful to do this but works