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For the past few weeks, the download speed on steam via USB-Tethering on my Linux distro (Arch, btw) has been steadily going, barely reaching 2 MB/s right now. I thought it might be the ISP slowing Steam specifically down, since every other download worked at the expected speed (~15-30 MB/s).
Just because I was curious (and wanted to exclude Linux as the issue), I booted into my Windows and started a Steam download, which surprisingly reached 30 MB/s.

When using home wifi, every download has the (approximately) same speed, only with USB-Tethering and only on Linux is Steam much slower than anything else.

I'm at a loss here. No idea what the issue could be.

Update while writing this: I noticed my Wifi was still connected while USB-Tethering was active, disconnected and now Steam downloads with ~10 MB/s. Still slower than Windows but at least some progress and hopefully insight into what could be causing this.

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[–] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Check your server sources. It could be that Windows Steam is using a closer mirror than your Linux Steam.

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Actually one the first things I tried. Not the issue unfortunately

[–] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago
[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There used to be an issue with IPV6 being enabled causing steam downloads to be very slow on Linux. I remember people saying that disabling IPV6 resolved the issue.

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Tried it, didn't do anything sadly :/