Throttle Steam download speed

[Chaotic42]

Is there a way to set a cap for Steam's download speed? I want it to go down to like 20KB/s instead of attempting to suck up every last little bit possible.

Thanks!

 

[pontifex]

damn, i want to do the opposite - make it go faster.

 

[SoulAssassin]

I see some conflicting info out there as to what port it uses, one says 60660 and another says 27000-27050. find the ports it's using and if you router supports it QoS it

 

[videogames101]

In steam settings, you can select connection speed, which should throttle d/l speed.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: videogames101
In steam settings, you can select connection speed, which should throttle d/l speed.

It didn't.

 

[Bateluer]

I am confused as to why you'd want to limit the download rate to 20Kb/s. Either your Steam games are tiny or you are a really really patient man. M2TW at 20Kb/s would take weeks to download. Just start the Steam download before bed time or before you leave for work.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
I am confused as to why you'd want to limit the download rate to 20Kb/s. Either your Steam games are tiny or you are a really really patient man. M2TW at 20Kb/s would take weeks to download. Just start the Steam download before bed time or before you leave for work.

maybe his max speed is 40KB/s that would certainly make sense then, but otherwise I agree...if you have a decent broad bandwidth connection, just let it do its thing. Unless you're planning to purchase and download ever single piece of software available through Steam, this shouldn't be a problem.

 

[thegimp03]

I don't think there is. Netlimiter 2 can do this for you, as well as keep stats of how much you download. Good for people who have monthly caps on their bandwidth.

 

[skace]

Good feature suggestion for Valve though.

 

[Ramma2]

I've used Netlimiter in the past, you can set upload and download caps on individual processes and active programs.

http://www.netlimiter.com/