Internet dies when downloading from Steam (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kuro@lemmy.world to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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I've had a weird issue with Steam lately.

Whenever I go to download a game on my pc, it will download fine, but I will lose internet for everything else on my network until the download is complete or I stop the download.

At first I thought this might be an issue with my ISP, but this doesn't happen when downloading a game from my Steamdeck.

Anyone have any fixes for this?

Here is a speedtest if this helps at all: https://www.speedtest.net/result/15012239449

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[-] Beowulf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've had this issue, I found it was related to my NIC and after a few minutes of downloading anything my network (on the computer, software side) would crash

I have an old ISP provided router and my wifi card is an Intel AX210 iirc.. Disabling AX on the router side (and forcing it to AC) is what fixed it for me.

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