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vmfriend · 04-08-2012, 16:21

General M, I think you are being a bit disingenuous with your post reference STM, you implied that the STM reduced the speed to 1mb, if I am reading the thread you linked to correctly, steam never maxes the connection anyway, so it's possible that steam was using the maximum it could of the 50mb available, which at that time (probably because of everyone else using steams servers) was only 1mb.

The OP didn't put up a speedtest unfortunately but quoted the download speed from Steam itself so I guess we will never know.

It's always a good idea to remember that VM are only one side of any download and there are reasons why the supplier of the data may limit the rate at which you can download data from them ;-)

My point - slow downloads are not always the fault of the broadband provider (whether its VM, BT or anyone else)

04-08-2012, 16:21	#16
vmfriend Inactive Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 276	Re: Constant Drops While Gaming General M, I think you are being a bit disingenuous with your post reference STM, you implied that the STM reduced the speed to 1mb, if I am reading the thread you linked to correctly, steam never maxes the connection anyway, so it's possible that steam was using the maximum it could of the 50mb available, which at that time (probably because of everyone else using steams servers) was only 1mb. The OP didn't put up a speedtest unfortunately but quoted the download speed from Steam itself so I guess we will never know. It's always a good idea to remember that VM are only one side of any download and there are reasons why the supplier of the data may limit the rate at which you can download data from them ;-) My point - slow downloads are not always the fault of the broadband provider (whether its VM, BT or anyone else)