Re: [gentoo-user] Steam downloading extremely

[Danny YUE]

Thanks for your fast reply, and sorry for my late response.

The original is described as: Steam starts with a fast download speed,
and eventually goes down, even to 0 (which is probably caused by a bug
in Steam Linux client).

>From this link:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/2/616189106498372437/
Just installing dnsmasq *does* solve the problem. And it did on my side.

Also this link https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam/Client_troubleshooting
mentioned the same method. (See section "Slow download speeds").

However, my current problem is that when downloading Civilization V the
problem comes back (unstable speed, sometimes down to 0 KB/s), while
downloading CS:GO is acceptable high speed 4MB/s.
(Yes, ISP here is rather slow...My bandwidth is only 30 or 50 Mbit I
don't remember.)

dnsmasq is up, and downloading from other sources (browser, emerge etc)
is definitely fast.

I suspect it is a problem of Steam client...


Danny


On 2017-03-15 13:48, Nils Freydank  wrote:
> Hi guy,
>
> Am Mittwoch, 15. März 2017, 14:24:10 CET schrieb Danny YUE:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I just got Steam installed and running successfully on my machine,
>> and tried to get CS:GO running smoothly, which made me really happy :-D
> nice to hear, have fun with that!
>
>> However when Steam is downloading games, the speed is extremely slow,
>> down to several KB/s, even some bytes/s.
>> I have already installed dnsmasq and it *was* good during downloading
>> CS:GO (~4MB/s), but became slow again with Civilization V.
>>
>> I googled a lot but all point to installing dnsmasq, which I don't think
>> is really helpful since I already have done that...
> Just installing dnsmasq doesn’t change anything, and just starting it does
> neither. I *assume* you did set it up as a local DNS cache, but please provide
> some information about it:
> - the source of the information, i.e. link to the page
> - your setup:
>   * dnsmasq config
>   * /etc/resolv.conf
>   * other configs you think that matter here
>
>> Also I'm sure downloading region is correct.
>>
>> Anybody experienced the same issue with dnsmasq installed?
>> Any clue is welcome and thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> Danny
>
> Nils

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam downloading extremely

[Nils Freydank]

Hi guy,

Am Mittwoch, 15. März 2017, 14:24:10 CET schrieb Danny YUE:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I just got Steam installed and running successfully on my machine,
> and tried to get CS:GO running smoothly, which made me really happy :-D
nice to hear, have fun with that!

> However when Steam is downloading games, the speed is extremely slow,
> down to several KB/s, even some bytes/s.
> I have already installed dnsmasq and it *was* good during downloading
> CS:GO (~4MB/s), but became slow again with Civilization V.
> 
> I googled a lot but all point to installing dnsmasq, which I don't think
> is really helpful since I already have done that...
Just installing dnsmasq doesn’t change anything, and just starting it does 
neither. I *assume* you did set it up as a local DNS cache, but please provide 
some information about it:
- the source of the information, i.e. link to the page
- your setup:
* dnsmasq config
* /etc/resolv.conf
* other configs you think that matter here
 
> Also I'm sure downloading region is correct.
> 
> Anybody experienced the same issue with dnsmasq installed?
> Any clue is welcome and thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Danny

Nils

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[gentoo-user] Steam downloading extremely

[Danny YUE]

Hi guys,

I just got Steam installed and running successfully on my machine,
and tried to get CS:GO running smoothly, which made me really happy :-D

However when Steam is downloading games, the speed is extremely slow,
down to several KB/s, even some bytes/s.
I have already installed dnsmasq and it *was* good during downloading
CS:GO (~4MB/s), but became slow again with Civilization V.

I googled a lot but all point to installing dnsmasq, which I don't think
is really helpful since I already have done that...

Also I'm sure downloading region is correct.

Anybody experienced the same issue with dnsmasq installed?
Any clue is welcome and thanks in advance.


Danny