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Slow download that produces lots of traffic

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#4265 · opened 2016-01-17 by kochd · updated 2016-02-24 · 3 comments · github
Kkochd 2016-01-17 github

Currently download in steam big picture mode shows 0-500kb/s on a 32Mbit connection.
Using other tools e.g iftop / openwrt graph i see that the connection runs at maximum using multiple servers.

steambox.lan                          => 162-254-197-23.valve.net                    38,2Kb  52,5Kb  13,2Kb
                                      <=                                             11,2Mb  9,50Mb  2,38Mb
steambox.lan                          => 162-254-197-24.valve.net                       0b   48,0Kb  13,2Kb
                                      <=                                                0b   8,20Mb  2,10Mb
steambox.lan                          => 162-254-196-18.valve.net                       0b   27,6Kb  12,3Kb
                                      <=                                                0b   6,27Mb  1,91Mb
steambox.lan                          => 162-254-197-25.valve.net                     130Kb  38,3Kb  10,1Kb
                                      <=                                             19,2Mb  4,23Mb  1,06Mb
steambox.lan                          => 162-254-196-26.valve.net                       0b   28,9Kb  8,37Kb
                                      <=

So actually downloaded 5GB. Where 100 MB were used for the wanted content.
Something is absolutely broken here.

Just guessing: The client is downloading the same chunks multiple times from multiple server.
It does not matter which product.

JJoshuaMurphynz 2016-01-17 github

What happens when you change your steam downloads server?
On 17 Jan 2016 17:30, "Daniel Koch" [email protected] wrote:

Currently download in steam big picture mode shows 0-500kb/s on a 32Mbit
connection.
Using other tools e.g iftop / openwrt graph i see that the connection runs
at maximum using multiple servers.

steambox.lan => 162-254-197-23.valve.net 38,2Kb 52,5Kb 13,2Kb
<= 11,2Mb 9,50Mb 2,38Mb
steambox.lan => 162-254-197-24.valve.net 0b 48,0Kb 13,2Kb
<= 0b 8,20Mb 2,10Mb
steambox.lan => 162-254-196-18.valve.net 0b 27,6Kb 12,3Kb
<= 0b 6,27Mb 1,91Mb
steambox.lan => 162-254-197-25.valve.net 130Kb 38,3Kb 10,1Kb
<= 19,2Mb 4,23Mb 1,06Mb
steambox.lan => 162-254-196-26.valve.net 0b 28,9Kb 8,37Kb
<=

So actually downloaded 5GB. Where 100 MB were used for the wanted content.
Something is absolutely broken here.

Just guessing: The client is download the same chunks multiple times from
multiple server.

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Kkochd 2016-01-17 github

I already tried that without success

Kkochd 2016-02-24 github

Closed. This happens when you try to adblock by mapping hosts to 0.0.0.0. Looks like some steam servers are on the lists around

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