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Steam download speed very slow

Premoz1
By Premoz1
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So I got very cheap 20mbs/Sec internet speed. When I go to internet speed test, it says 15 mb/sec. But when downloading games on steam, its 1-2mb/S. So its very low. Is that normal?

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I think you're confusing Megabits (Mb) with Megabytes (MB). A megabit is a unit of data transfer speed used in networking. It is equal to 1/8 megabytes per second. If your internet speed is 15-20 Megabits (Mb), that's equal to about 2 Megabytes (MB) per second. Perfectly normal. 

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1 megabyte = 8 megabits. Speedtests usually show you how many megabits per second you get. Steam shows you megabytes per second, so 15 megabits (Mb) (speedtest) = around 2 megabytes (MB) in steam

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