Australia is special if change steam DL zone dont help, ask own ISP, we can't fix bottle necks here, we all can use a globe here, technical you dont have a nextdoor neigbour, so your own ISP could be seen as best advice to tell you or solve what is going on here with into a steam issue.

Steam has actual nothing todo with your local ISP and there partners parner,
it require pc user actual understand the region, if this matter, hey i dont care if AUSSY has world biggest fiber multi cable in all direction if they can afford it, i doubt it, and this is why australia is special and you should talk with own ISP. in how many direction you have or can set a server to.

You only understand this then you talk with ppl that has minor isle in own country and why bottleneck could be part of the issue. something only own ISP can tell you in the management of Network, if they dare tell own user the problem.

I could just have said steam is not going to fix your local ISP region issue, but i doubt any understand what this mean, still require you know how Backbone and region ISP work.

ps.
This is why steam is not a ISP and never will be, because if they do that we can all say fix your network steam. with your partners partner.


We are not steam support here, this is aa steam community user forum.

And it dont help atm with steam mass event sale.

Others are facing this issue as well. So are some others on forums. Dont happen to be with optus are you?

I don't know if this is an optus issue because it very well could be but I just changed my download region to NZ and my speeds went back up immediately. Seems changing the download region to somewhere not in Aus, or at least the east coast seems to help right now.

Just an update, it's been 2 days later and it's still downloading really slow. from what I'm reading it seems like an ISP issue with optus. Only solution I've come up with so far is changing download region to Malaysia.