I have a very high quality business ISP that currently provides me 50gb per month. I run a web design company from home, and this has been plenty for me - never exceeded the limit, until my son started playing online games with Steam. Now he seems to use more bandwidth in a day than I do in a week.
Now I am looking into ways of sorting this out. Obvious one - 'You cant play online anymore' but he likes to play with his friends online. So I believe it is possible to do this with the QoS feature of my router - which is a Billion BiPac7800N.
It looks like I can assign different rates to different ports and IP addresses and protocol and direction. SO there should be some way of doing it. Anyone done this? Any tips for me?
Cheers
/j
Does Steam Throttle Download Speeds
Does Steam Throttle Downloads
Re: Does Steam limit download speeds? 2014/05/18 18:16:24 Just a random bit of insight, I've ran Steam through my regular connection, then I've ran Steam through a VPN. I've noticed that Cox will detect and throttle Steam. So, you do not have 50–80 MBps; what you have is 50–80 Mbps - megabits per second. That is some 6–13 MB/s Go to the download page within the Steam client - it will show you a graphical overview of how Steam is doing. How to boost your Steam download speed. Tired of waiting for your game update or new game download? Here's a tip to speed up your connection to Steam and spend your time playing, not waiting. I do the bt speed test and says 35 - 37 mb download. Yet anytime i try and download,for instance a steam game i find i am throttled to 4.3 mb. Why am i being throttled on an UNLIMITED line? And yes i have checked with steam,and its BT is the problem. I am not going to pay for a package that states one thing and sneakily does another.