I'm asking this because Steam is having a huge sale this whole week, which is apparently annihilating the whole nation's download speed.
 
I'm currently downloading Resident Evil 5 and getting between 40 and 700 kb/sec, depending on the second. I think it has about eight hours to go...
 
Aw, man. This is frustrating. From 50 kb to 1000 kb, then back down to 0. Now I'm back at 448 again, after finding a decent server.

1MB per sec at this very moment. Got Left 4 Dead 2 and the Introversion pack cheap.
This is in Europe, for what it's worth.

If your downloads are going slow, try another server. You can change the server in the downloads tab of the settings. Mine was going at a snail's pace, but I tried a couple of different servers and found one going at a decent speed.

L4D2 is really going slow atm

800KB/s - 1.2MB/s, same as ever. I'm in the UK if that means anything.

600+ in Ireland, some dips down to 200-300 for a few minutes but mostly normal.

Everyone has different download speeds, so I don't see the point of this poll. 

I've been downloading between 1.5-2.5 mb as usual. Just try other servers or wait until there aren't 2 million people on steam as I'm sure there are a crapload of people downloading stuff.

I usually get 2-3.5 mb/sec but with this sale I only get 500 kb/sec

about 60 kb/s. which sadly is normal.

So are people talking about bits or bytes? Usually a lowercase 'b' implies bits which makes sense for 2.5 Mb/s, but would be surprising for 60 Kb/s.

" So are people talking about bits or bytes? Usually a lowercase 'b' implies bits which makes sense for 2.5 Mb/s, but would be surprising for 60 Kb/s. "

I don't use Steam, but my... other downloads are usually around 1500 kbit/sec.

When I downloaded Deus Ex a couple of days ago I was getting around 1MB/s.

I keep trying to install The Witcher at the moment and it always says the servers are too busy... D:

I usually download from Phoenix but it was slowing down, restarted with Los Angeles servers and things have been full speed so far.

I've been downloading from the L.A. area and haven't had any problem with download speed, but I have had several errors when I attempt to start downloading that go away after a few tries.

Usually my steam games download at a stead 2mb/s but now I've been lucky if I get 500kb/s

The same old 250kbps cap I always have is still the max I get.

Going normal for me, anywhere from 100-500KB/s. Large gap, but it fluctuates a bit and tends to stick around one number for an hour or so. Peaks quite a bit at 500-550ish.
 
As of this typing, it's going around 240.

It's all over the place for me. When I'm on an ethernet connection, I can get usually betweek 1mb-1.6mbps. Now since most people are going crazy with getting a ton of games mine ranges from 600-1kbps. Really really slow at times.