Steam downloads very slow compared to Xbox

[sammi]

Hello everyone, long time no talk.

Recently I was gifted an Xbox One (although I would have preferred a 1080). Anyway I decided to buy three months of Xbox Game Pass and downloaded a few games from there. I was actually pretty surprised by the speed because it was around 3-7 Mbps (Even reached 12Mbps once). I haven't played any game other than FIFA in a long time but today I bought Dragon Quest XI on Steam and my download speed is terrible, only around 500kbps and maxing out at 892kbps.

Is there any reason for such a big difference such as a server or something? And is there anything I can do to play my beloved series tonight?

Thanks in advance.

[Trave160]

Talk to your ISP, ask them about slowdowns or it could be that the game itself is less cached than the others. This happens a lot with older games and ones rarely played.

[aayman]

You sure you're reading the units right? Megabits per second and not megabytes?

[sammi]

You sure you're reading the units right? Megabits per second and not megabytes?

It is megabytes. Sorry for that mix up.

As @Travel160 said, it probably isn't cached yet. Fortunately my speed went up to 1.5 megabytes so I managed to download it.