map download speed capped at 1MB/s?

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map download speed capped at 1MB/s?

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So me and a friend are playing SE, but we tried changing the upload cap to 25,000 KB/s, how many can connect etc.. but it seems hard limited to 1MB/s.
I have 500/200 he has 1Gb both ways, is there anyway to remove the 1MB limit.
We are both playing through steam.

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There is no built in speed cap; the game tries to go as fast as it can until it starts dropping packets and then backs off slightly.
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Rseding91 wrote:
Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:34 pm
There is no built in speed cap; the game tries to go as fast as it can until it starts dropping packets and then backs off slightly.
Hi Rseding, thank you for replying :) please find the image below with our issue. We are not even 1/5 the way through and our map is nearly 150MB in size at that rate, every time we want to log in it takes nearly 5 minutes because of this "limit" is there a way of diagnosing this to make it go faster?
https://imgur.com/a/6sZP85j
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Rseding91 wrote:
Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:34 pm
There is no built in speed cap; the game tries to go as fast as it can until it starts dropping packets and then backs off slightly.
So update, friend, ran it as a headless server, fixed. By the looks of it steam has a limit of 1MB/s for download of maps, might be an issue to look into in the future. but now getting 25MB/s download = perfect

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Thank you for sharing your solution. I wonder if steam's connection broker is placing a limit somewhere.

Edit: I took a peek just looking at steam's network interface debug stuff, the game seems to only be posting ~508B at a time. I wonder if that's related or not.

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