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Game downloads max at 40ish mps.

shaneh890

I have 350mps download speeds from my internet (I’m using Ethernet cable and speed tests confirm this number) and I have a WD SATA ssd that’s rated for 600mps speeds. I’ve check to make sure there is no cap for download speeds on the game websites but yet I’m still maxing around 40-45 MPs when downloading games all from different websites (I.e. steam, blizzard, epic). Is there something else that could be bottlenecking? I have an asrock b450m pro4 mobo so maybe since it is a cheaper board its hindering speeds?

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so you have 2 different speeds.. your ISP speeds are rated in Mbps, or Megabits per second... and almost all downloads you see, they will be rated at MegaBYTES per second...

 

THere are 8 bits in 1 byte...

 

so 40x8 = ~320mbps

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Not that I think it matters but I have a

ryzen 5 2600 OC to 4.1 ghz

rx 580

32gigs of ddr4 running at 2800 (I know it’s low but can’t get it stable at anything higher when I added the extra 16 gigs, 4 sticks of 8gigs total. But benchmarks haven’t been affected much anyways.)

 

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Steam, Blizzard, Epic, etc. all display in Megabytes by default (MB) and, as @Skiiwee29 mentioned, internet speed is advertised/sold in bits so take your Steam download number and multiply it by 8 to get your speed in megabits. In steam you can change the default display to bits per second instead of bytes, not sure about Blizzard or Epic though.

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2 minutes ago, shaneh890 said:

Wow can’t believe I didn’t know the difference. Thanks. 

There is a logical reason for it too, although not as widely known as I'd like :P . Information is transferred in bits (1 or 0) (aka on or off) but the smallest unit of information a drive can store is 1 byte (8 bits). Capitalization is important for the B/b and supposed to be the differentiator but even ISPs and others will just capitalize it all in most cases which muddies the water a lot and makes it harder to tell at a glance.

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5 minutes ago, shaneh890 said:

Wow can’t believe I didn’t know the difference. Thanks. 

Very common for most to not know there is an actual difference and what the difference is and how to tell. As @Lurick mentioned, its all about the B's and how they're stated. 

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4 minutes ago, Lurick said:

not sure about Blizzard or Epic though.

Blizzard have a hard time pushing much more than bytes/sec these days... without the mega. 

Every Warzone update is a nightmare :D 

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