Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a month of mobile data

Re:Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a m... by esseph on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:40PM (#44610124)

Try the steam website and see if you have the same problem?

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Re:Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a m... by Fogest on Friday July 18, 2025 @06:38PM (#44610557)

The funny thing is that it actually works fine for me on their mobile app, which is the same app this post talks about with the poor data usage.

It just seems to be on my PC. It's only on the store. Even download speeds seem okay. But regardless of whether I use the client, Brave, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, they all are slow for the store page. Even things like the community pages and workshop all load fine. It makes zero sense to me why things like pictures/videos in their store load insanely slow for me, yet the images in things like the workshop have zero problem.

I've been trying to figure out what is wrong for quite some time and haven't figured out what could be causing it.

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Re:Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a m... by esseph on Friday July 18, 2025 @06:55PM (#44610696)

Have you moved to a different locality since you've had a steam account?

Steam -> Settings -> Download -> Region

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Re:Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a m... by Fogest on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:29PM (#44610984)

Negative, and it's funny because my download speed seems fine in Steam. It's only the store specifically that is slow.

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Re:Trying to send a sticker in Steam Chat burned through a m... by homebrewer on Friday July 18, 2025 @08:34PM (#44611410)

I'm assuming you've already looked into F12 › Network tab? No requests getting stuck on DNS resolution of some weird CDN or anything like that?

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