Talk:Steam: Difference between revisions

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 :'''- this was fixed after removing "capSysNice = true;".''' [[User:Sirdonot|Sirdonot]] ([[User talk:Sirdonot|talk]]) 20:15, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
+== Download rates are very slow ==
+see:
+https://gist.github.com/FikriRNurhidayat/ce18426ad94fff2140538c0adf0e06ec?permalink_comment_id=4806133
+= Why is it slow? =
+I don't know, perhaps the Steam application doesn't cache the dns locally or something hence your computer will always lookup for the domain everytime you download it on each chunks. CMIIW.
+https://gist.github.com/FikriRNurhidayat/ce18426ad94fff2140538c0adf0e06ec?permalink_comment_id=6186482#gistcomment-6186482
+Still a thing in 2026, I fixed it with this nixos option: <code>services.dnsmasq.enable = true;</code>
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+Worked also for me. Download rate increased from ~100 MBit to ~950 Mbit. Maybe it's worth mentioning. To add  <code>services.dnsmasq.enable = true;</code>
+It seems Windows does cache DNS, so Windows Steam users are not affected, when Steam does a DNS requests for every chunk to download. Maybe the reason, it's not fixed yet, or never will get fixed.
+cheers
+Tom [[User:Tom Hutter|Tom Hutter]] ([[User talk:Tom Hutter|talk]]) 11:31, 17 July 2026 (UTC)