Hey y’all,

Just got my hands on the OLED, my first Steam Deck. Right away, I notice my download speeds are way slower than I’m used to.

Steam on PC: 100-120 MB/s download speed

Steam Deck on Wi-Fi: 5-20 MB/s Steam Deck on Ethernet: 25-50 MB/s

I have gigabit internet, so the 120 Megabytes/s download speed from my PC is right on the money.

Running a speed-test, there doesn’t seem to be an issue as the speeds are where they should be:

Speed test on PC: 950 Mb/s (perfectly fine)

Speed test on Deck’s Wi-Fi: 650 Mb/s (acceptable) Speed test on Deck’s Ethernet: 930 Mb/s (perfectly fine)

Troubleshooting: Beyond the ol’ turn it on and off again, I’ve been perusing old posts and have attempted to “limit” my download speeds to 10,000,000 Kb/s, as well as disabling the Developer’s “Wifi Power Management.” But nothing has worked, so now I’m here to make my own post.

Anyone know of other solutions? Does the Steam Deck simply not surpass these speeds? Ideally I’d like to be getting around the same download speed as my PC when connected—120 MB/s—as opposed to my Deck’s current max of 50 MB/s. And same for Wi-Fi. With the Deck’s 650 Mb/s speed-test, I should at least be getting a max download speed of around 80 MB/s, but not even the connected speed is getting that.

Thanks!

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    10 months ago

    I’m having a similar issue, but at about half the speed – 400/20 connection, downloads at 50MB/s+ on my desktop fine, Steam Deck gets 12.5 MB/s. I’ve tried with the Steam Deck dock, I’ve tried with a USB-C Ethernet dongle, and it stays stuck there no matter what I do.

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    10 months ago

    Hey so I just found something that fixed my issue. To test it, you’ll have to go into Desktop mode. Have to open the Steam Console, and the instructions in this thread don’t work for it. What I had to do was to go to the steam deck icon, click it, type “Konsole” in the search bar, open Konsole, then type the following:

    • steam steam://open/console

    Yes, you type steam twice. Then follow the instructions to paste the two lines in individually. I did that and my speeds instantly shot up to 50 MB/s from 12.5 MB/s

    Hopefully this helps you too, as your issue sounds similar to mine.