Author Topic: This game is taking forever to download.  (Read 901 times)

Literally. I am using my hotel's wifi, but it forgot how to steam.


It doesn't look like you're getting any traffic at all considering that your download rate is 0 B/s. Maybe the hotel you're at only allows traffic on port 80 or something as I'm pretty sure that Steam downloads games via bittorrent and not over HTTP. If not that then the wifi is definitely too slow to download something thats a few gigs.

hotel's wifi
If you ever got more than 1gb downloaded on that, you sir are a miracleworker.

Anyway, alot of hotels have bandwidth restrictions. Good luck with that.

mine is -1 bytes/s
:(
it is sucking up my harddrive
heeeeeelp

If you ever got more than 1gb downloaded on that, you sir are a miracleworker.

Anyway, alot of hotels have bandwidth restrictions. Good luck with that.
The hotel I always stay at has better internet than me and I can watch 720p videos on it.

The hotel I always stay at has better internet than me and I can watch 720p videos on it.
What hotel is this and why am I not staying there right now

That's pretty horrid.
This is the hotel where the lamp doubles as a power strip. I am charging my laptop, phone, and DS from the lamp.
mine is -1 bytes/s
:(
it is sucking up my harddrive
heeeeeelp
Stay away fom the HardDrive Leech Hotel.
The hotel I always stay at has better internet than me and I can watch 720p videos on it.
I don't beleive you. I can't watch 240p.

Now it's 61kb/s. Ima leave it to download overnight.

Now it's 61kb/s. Ima leave it to download overnight.

How far away from your house are you? Might help to change your download region.

How far away from your house are you? Might help to change your download region.
I'm in massachusetts. I live somewhere more souther than here.

I'm in massachusetts. I live somewhere more souther than here.

Then try changing your region to Boston or New York.

I think the real issue here is why do you think a hotel's free wi-fi will download that?
Honestly, the best wi-fi I've had at a hotel was somewhere around 100kb/s download rate. That is a little lower than my home's internet rate, and I have what is considered "terrible" internet.

Then try changing your region to Boston or New York.
KK. Doing it now.

pretty sure that Steam downloads games via bittorrent and not over HTTP.
Steam does not use peer-to-peer, it has dedicated content distribution servers. Though you could be right that they limit connections that are not on port 80.