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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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[-] IsThisLoss@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

When installing games you are both downloading, decompressing, and writing at the same time, so it is a multifunction cpu/memory/storage benchmark.

On a laptop if moving to a closer datacentre does nothing there is very little you can do.

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