Is Steam extreamly slow for anyone else?

[gta95]

I'm trying to play some steam games but store.steampowered.com won't come up at all and I can even access my games. It says "Scanning for Steam game updates..."


EDIT: Now I'm having trouble DLing TF2. What is going on?

 

[inotocracy]

Seems fine to me, but then again I'm not downloading anything.

 

[magnetik]

It hung on me trying to purchase the weekend deal.. oddly enough it happenend last week too. I now can't install tomb raider because it says the servers are too busy

 

[Neurofreeze]

Steam servers often go down or experience slowdowns. That's pretty normal (shitty, but normal for Valve).

I wasn't having trouble this morning but I did late last night.

But again, lapse of service is pretty routine for Steam and hardly anyone makes any noise about it these days because we're all so accustomed to it or retarded fanboys of anything Valve.

 

[craigbru]

It's all my fault... I'm downloading about 40 games to a new install...

 

[Einhanderkiller]

It's fast for me. Maxes out my download speed.

 

[magnetik]

working for me today.. Steam was steaming pile last night.

 

[Leb_CRX]

wont even let me play anything

keeps saying the servers are busy to try in a few minutes
been over an hour now

 

[heatlesssun]

Yeah, downloading a few things today and is VERY slow. But I've tested a few other things and they're fine so I think that something might be going on on the Steam side today.

 

[krameriffic]

I only have trouble during times when its expected, like during that free UT3 weekend a few weeks ago. Downloads slow to a crawl when they obviously have huge volume.

 

[Gorankar]

I think it depends on what server you connect to for content as well.

I have used Steam since shortly after beta and have had almost no issues with it ever being down when I went to use it. Slow I have definitely experienced during the expected rushes. Lucky I guess.