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Steam download speed keeps dropping to zero
Trying to download a game on Steam right now, but the download speed is all over the place. My internet is fast—should be getting well over 50MB/s—but Steam keeps dropping to zero and slowly creeping...
When you download a game on Steam, it's a two-part process: the data is downloaded, and then it's decompressed and written to your drive. If your drive writes data too slowly, Steam will halt the download to prevent data loss and wait for the disk to catch up. This is why you see the network speed drop to zero while the disk usage stays high.