I never normally have any issues downloading from steam however lately it has been quite erratic.
My download speeds are averaging 5 megabytes/second which is well below what I would normally get, 45 megabytes/second. The speed isn’t the main issue however and it only seems to be downloading a few seconds before dropping back down to 0 data been downloaded.

I understand that there is a big sale on and would expect some impact to the speed but the quality of connection seems odd.

I have tried various download locations, setting priority to high in task manager, closing all other applications, and all other services are working as per normal, incl speed tests.

Any thoughts or suggestions?