# Setting download priorities in steam?

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/setting-download-priorities-in-steam/36806>\
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [October 11, 2007, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/setting-download-priorities-in-steam/36806 "2007-10-11T09:38:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/setting-download-priorities-in-steam/36806/1 "2007-10-11T09:38:22Z")

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I haven’t really used my steam account in a WHILE (just re-installed it yesterday as a matter of fact).

I purchased the orange box on there yesterday and went to go install all my steam games, but like the dummy I am, I set them ALL to download.

so currently, HL2, Lost Coast, HL2:episode 1, HL2: episode 2, Team fortress 2, Portal and The Ship are all downloading at once and as a result, I’m getting speeds comparable to dialup. 2 are even d/ling at a blistering 300 **bytes per second** lol

is there a way to pause certain downloads or give one a higher bandwidth allocation or something?

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**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 9:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/setting-download-priorities-in-steam/36806/2 "2007-10-11T09:44:04Z")

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yep

its called the help file, might wanna look at it.

😛

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/setting-download-priorities-in-steam/36806/3 "2007-10-11T09:47:22Z")

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n/m just figured it out lol

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**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/setting-download-priorities-in-steam/36806/4 "2007-10-11T09:50:48Z")

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using the help file huh

haha

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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/setting-download-priorities-in-steam/36806/5 "2007-10-11T09:53:22Z")

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lol naahhh, who needs the help file for help