With that said, it’s now time to look at the solutions and solve this problem once and for all so you can continue downloading and enjoying your favorite games on Steam. The image below shows what users see in their Steam downloads dashboard when this problem occurs. This leads to them searching for the cause of the problem in the wrong place when it’s usually just a bug on Steam. Users often blame themselves for doing something that causes the download speed to drop so quickly. The reason why this often leaves users confused is that the download starts with normal speeds, then sharply drops to zero.
When your download speed drops to 0 bytes, the problem is pretty self-explanatory.