Steam - Allows limiting download bandwidth

[Final8ty]

April 24th, 2013

New Steam Client Beta Available

Hi everyone,

We're beginning a new Steam Client Beta today. Here are the changes included in this build:

General
Added rate-limiting of Steam game downloads, via Settings -> Downloads

Picture courtesy of (http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...76&postcount=1)

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Ste...70796404448244

If you are interested in opting into the BETA channel, details included in the link below:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Betas

[zanzabar]

now that comcast will go fast enough to max out steam most of the time (5.2MB/s) i dont get dced anymore, but this would have been very nice to not get punted last year.

[s1nykuL]

I don't have have a bandwidth problem, although this is cool for those that use the kind of ISP where this is needed.

I would prefer and option to limit the time a server shows advertising before one can join a game. (TF2) 30 seconds in some cases. Pinion can crash and burn. I don't even see the ads they are blocked by my hosts file.... I Still have to wait 30 seconds though. Pretty soon my black list will need external storage. I guess this isn't Steams fault but they could stop servers bringing back up TMOTD when continue is clicked.

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