For the past few weeks, the download speed on steam via USB-Tethering on my Linux distro (Arch, btw) has been steadily going, barely reaching 2 MB/s right now. I thought it might be the ISP slowing Steam specifically down, since every other download worked at the expected speed (~15-30 MB/s).
Just because I was curious (and wanted to exclude Linux as the issue), I booted into my Windows and started a Steam download, which surprisingly reached 30 MB/s.
When using home wifi, every download has the (approximately) same speed, only with USB-Tethering and only on Linux is Steam much slower than anything else.
I'm at a loss here. No idea what the issue could be.
Update while writing this: I noticed my Wifi was still connected while USB-Tethering was active, disconnected and now Steam downloads with ~10 MB/s. Still slower than Windows but at least some progress and hopefully insight into what could be causing this.
5 Comments
RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y
Check your server sources. It could be that Windows Steam is using a closer mirror than your Linux Steam.
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 2y
Actually one the first things I tried. Not the issue unfortunately
RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Darn
PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
There used to be an issue with IPV6 being enabled causing steam downloads to be very slow on Linux. I remember people saying that disabling IPV6 resolved the issue.
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y
Tried it, didn't do anything sadly :/