Steam on my PC
 

I have recently installed steam on my PC and my broadband usage has doubled, is this due to steam, is steam a file sharing system os some sort.

thanks

Depends, Steam does automatically update games whenever there's a new patch release for that game you have in your game library or steam has a update of its own.

Apart from that Steam doesn't do anything on its own.

HunterICX

Steam is an "online" service as well as a game provider. Often, it starts up when the pc does - and auto logs you in. Thus - its generating traffic. Whether your playing a steam game or not, your still likely to be logged in, and thus passing packets. That data pales in comparison to downloading patches and such - but if you start playing a game - your steam traffic will jump. Friend notifications, steam "achievements", etc - all are traffic originating from steam.

Is it doubling your traffic? Possible.

thanks for that, I just found steam has an offline mode, so thats ok, it's the broadband increasing by 100% that has scared me. :yeah:

Trouble is the game (Napoleon) cannot be played with out steam which is frustrating.

You can disable steam from download patches for installed games automatically, if thats an issues just right-click on the game and under properties disable it.