The Orange Box download is very slow

[bwarrior]

I have left my computer on for 24 hours and portal has only downloaded 3% and all other game downloads are paused. Any ideas on how to make it download faster?

 

[Fenring]

Mo' money, mo' Internets. Pay your ISP more money. They'll make it download faster. If your dl speed is that low, just buy boxed copies.

 

[bwarrior]

got a mac, the boxed orange box for mac

so something i can do to steam to make it download faster

 

[Fenring]

got a mac, the boxed orange box for mac

so something i can do to steam to make it download faster

So you're installing it? I'm confused. Is it updating?

 

[Corpse XxX]

If your pc has been on for days and days, that can make it slow.. try restart..
You can also unplug your router for a minute so that it is completely off.. Then try again.

Try downloading something else from somewhere else and see what speed you get. If that is fast then your pc is not the problem.

 

[bwarrior]

Its downloading, I just brought it

 

[Fenring]

Its downloading, I just brought it

Please pause all the downloads, then go here, take the speedtest and tell us what is says.

 

[Delusibeta]

The problem with digital distribution: it takes an age if your internet connection ain't great. Although to be fair, it's a big download if you want to install all five games (although the engine files are shared), and the only competition to digital downloads at the moment is the post man.

 

[Fenring]

The problem with digital distribution: it takes an age if your internet connection ain't great. Although to be fair, it's a big download if you want to install all five games (although the engine files are shared), and the only competition to digital downloads at the moment is the post man.

The post man normally takes a few days unless you preorded, going down to BestBuy/GameStop and just picking the game up will probably take under an hour. And everyone knows midnight release parties are fun anyways.

 

[Tharwen]

Go to Steam > Settings > Downloads & Cloud, then make sure the download location is set to the nearest server to where you live. It's very unlikely to make a difference, but you might as well try it.

 

[Hiphophippo]

With steam, sometimes you can get much faster download speeds by selecting random ass servers around the world that you figure aren't as used as the one closest to you.

Food for thought.

 

[bwarrior]

Ping 180
download 10.2
upload 0.25

 

[tharglet]

One thing also to mention - ensure you're not running any other downloads at the same time - if you've got anything running in the background that's downloading actively or parties in the house partaking in heavy p2p activity, then this will affect your download rate.

If you're all good on the bandwidth (and your ISP doesn't suck - I see you got 10mbps on the test?) then try restarting steam (it can screw up occasionally I find). If it still doesn't go fast, then yeah, prodding your computer/router is advised. You may wish to tell us your ISP to see if us forumgoes know anything about it.

Also check if your ISP is liable to throttling Steam traffic. I've heard some ISPs in other countries host their own Steam server so that people can download off that, and not the main ones, so that certain net traffic can be molested with, without upsetting the Steam users.

 

[tharglet]

Crikey, is that KB/s? That's slow as anything!

Speedtest.net is in mbps. I assume they used that because someone mentioned it earlier.

 

[Delusibeta]

Ping 180
download 10.2
upload 0.25

Crikey, is that KB/s? That's slow as anything!

close anything else using the Internet on your computer, consider getting the shortest network cable possible (that's negligible though) but the most important factor is a fast ISP.

Actually, their units is megabits. So that's actually a decent score, so something else must be the problem.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Improve your internet and restart your computer.