How to fix low download speed during Steam Summer Sale?

Steam Summer Sale 2021

This year’s Steam Summer Sale has already started from 24th June and will end on 8th July. Thousands of games get a heavy discount during this summer sale. The Summer sale is definitely one of the biggest Steam sales during a whole year.

However, a lot of people are facing an issue after the Steam Summer sale started yesterday. Whenever they are going to download any game from their Steam library, the download speed starts falling down even below 1 MB/second. In addition, it’s not an ISP issue. During the summer sale, a lot of people buy new games and start downloading them. Most probably, a high number of people from your region are downloading games from Steam and it’s the actual reason for Steam’s low download speed. Are you also facing the same problem? Let’s check out how to solve the issue.

How to fix low Steam download speed?

There is only one way to fix this issue. Try downloading the game during the nighttime or change your region to a part of the world where it’s a night at that time. To do it follow these steps:

  • Launch Steam.
  • Go to “Steam” on the top-left corner.
  • Click on Settings.
  • Then go to the Download section.
  • There you will get the option to change your download region.
  • Restart Steam.

Once you are done, you will be able to download the game from your selected region’s server and you will start getting good speed as the server is not overloaded.

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