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apologies for poor picture, was redownloading ETS2 and the speed is baffling to look at. What causes steam’s download speed to be horrendous?

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[-] regul@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

What kind of hard drive do you have? Solid state or disk? You could be write buffer constrained.

[-] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

actually that might be it, it’s a pretty shit laptop but can run a few games with the lowest graphics settings possible obviously. Just now, the speed has shot back up out of nowhere

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