STEAM extremely slow

[Prussian to the Iron]

I bought the boxed edition of E:TW, but it is at my grandmas house. i installed it and loved it on her computer. i cannot bring the box here, i odnt want to arouse suspicion. so i am downloading it from steam (luckily it was uploaded to my account i had to create when installing). however, its been nearly 3 hours and it is still at only 12 percent. is there a way to make it faster? i cant wait to play it on this computer, its waaaay better performance-wise. but it'll take like a whole another day just to install it.

so again my questino is, how can i get it to install/download faster?

[Beskar]

The thing that struck me with your post, is saying your grandmother has a better computer than you.

[Dogfish]

You could try changing your region and/or download server. I'm at work and don't know the exact options, but I know it's possible and might get you a much faster download.

[A Very Super Market]

No, he installed in from the disk at his grandmother's, and is downloading it from his home.

Frankly, you'll just have to wait a day. 15 Gb is a helluva lot, and unless you're willing to upgrade your internet to a super-connection, you'll just have to wait.

[Dogfish]

No, he installed in from the disk at his grandmother's, and is downloading it from his home.

Frankly, you'll just have to wait a day. 15 Gb is a helluva lot, and unless you're willing to upgrade your internet to a super-connection, you'll just have to wait.

Right, he is downloading from his house. Through steam. So if he goes into steam and changes his specified region, then he will be potentially be hitting against a less loaded server, and possibly get a higher download speed. I've done this in Steam before. Sometimes I get higher download speeds from overseas servers than Valve's servers in California.

Am I missing something?

[Prussian to the Iron]

The thing that struck me with your post, is saying your grandmother has a better computer than you.

no...i said mine is better....but mine is also a vista so i have to have 2gb of RAM now. i only have 4gb left. im gonna have to sacrifice any new computer games until i can get a job and upgrade myself....

[Dogfish]

no...i said mine is better....but mine is also a vista so i have to have 2gb of RAM now. i only have 4gb left. im gonna have to sacrifice any new computer games until i can get a job and upgrade myself....

Technically, that makes no sense. When you say you only have 4gb left, it sounds like you're making the all-too-common mistake of conflating RAM and Hard Drive.

[Prussian to the Iron]

i figured that i was wrong with that. yah, i have 4gb of RAM and lots of memory.

either way, my computer is better yet it will not be installed until tomorrow. :(

[Dogfish]

i figured that i was wrong with that. yah, i have 4gb of RAM and a shitload of memory.

either way, my computer is better yet it will not be installed until tomorrow. :(

No, you have 4gb of memory and lots of hard drive space. Memory is associated with RAM. RAM = Random Access Memory.

[Relic]

Lol. Download a 15 GB Game faster... and a Grandparent with a better PC... xD

[Prussian to the Iron]

i already said i had the better one...he misunderstood. still, i have a good internet connection and it shouldnt take 1 whole day to download it.