Ok so I know this was fairly fast, but after playing around with QUALCOMM I think I might have fixed it partialy, though not enough to deem this a solved. Under "internet provider speed" in the Network tab I found an option to manually adjust download speed. It was sitting at .25 megabits (per second?), and I hit the up arrow until it was at 3.5 megabits. I went back to steam and saw after making the adjustment that my download speed was capping at 310 KB/s. So I guess what I don't understand is why QUALCOMM set my download speed so low. Is there a good reason to manually set the threshold so low? More importantly, am I on the wrong forum for these questions, and if so where would be a better place? When I originally searched this issue I saw a lot of related hits from this server, and almost nothing that looked useful from some QUALCOMM official site.