Max Network Speed?

[Loghawk555]

Ok so I have a question referring towards optimization. My Isp gives me 15 down and 2 up (mbps) and if I go to a speed test website it says i have that speed. So this is where my question comes in why in apps such as steam, uplay, origin, etc. do I only get 1.8-2 down (mbps)? Is my network properly maximized? I have a direct Cat5E connection to my router my mother board says my Lan adapter does 100 mbps but yet my speeds in these apps are so low. Just wondering if there are any tips to getting more speed out of my network.

 

 

-Thanks

[yannickverc]

You can have 500 mbps down but still download at 3MB/S 

 

Download speed on speedtest != download speed from servers

[Vitalius]

Ok so I have a question referring towards optimization. My Isp gives me 15 down and 2 up (mbps) and if I go to a speed test website it says i have that speed. So this is where my question comes in why in apps such as steam, uplay, origin, etc. do I only get 1.8-2 down (mbps)? Is my network properly maximized? I have a direct Cat5E connection to my router my mother board says my Lan adapter does 100 mbps but yet my speeds in these apps are so low. Just wondering if there are any tips to getting more speed out of my network.

 

 

-Thanks

Your ISP gives you 15 Megabits per second down and 2 Megabits per second up (Mbps). 

You are getting 1.8-2 Megabytes per second down on apps such as steam (MBps). 

They're two different things. There are 8 Megabits in 1 Megabyte. So if your ISP were giving you 16 Megabits per second, Steam would show you as downloading at 2 Megabytes per second (because 16 Megabits = 2 Megabytes). 

[yannickverc]

Your ISP gives you 15 Megabits per second down and 2 Megabits per second up (Mbps). 

You are getting 1.8-2 Megabytes per second down on apps such as steam (MBps). 

They're two different things. There are 8 Megabits in 1 Megabyte. So if your ISP were giving you 16 Megabits per second, Steam would show you as downloading at 2 Megabytes per second (because 16 Megabits = 2 Megabytes). 

Damn, nice ELI5. thanks!

[Enderman]

[Br3tt96]

I usually just take my download peak speed from speed test.net and divide by 8.

[aneil1998]

As stated before by @Vitalius ,  your ISP provides a data connection. If the internet package is 10Mb (Megabit), the download speed will be approximately 1MB (Megabyte).

 

8 bits = 1 byte so your theoretical download speed on a 10mb connection will be 1.25MB/s.

 

But to make life simpler, just divide the internet pacakge speed by 10 and you will a rough estimate of your download speed.

[AfonsoJR]

I usually just take my download peak speed from speed test.net and divide by 8.

 

Or you just do the test in MB/s which is possible in Speedtest

[EmeraldFlame]

Your ISP gives you 15 Megabits per second down and 2 Megabits per second up (Mbps). 

You are getting 1.8-2 Megabytes per second down on apps such as steam (MBps). 

They're two different things. There are 8 Megabits in 1 Megabyte. So if your ISP were giving you 16 Megabits per second, Steam would show you as downloading at 2 Megabytes per second (because 16 Megabits = 2 Megabytes). 

And furthermore internet traffic has overhead. Typically for every 8 bits there are around 2 bits of encoding and routing data included so real world means that if you actually want to hit 2 Megabytes you are going to need a 20 Megabit pipe.

And beyond even that, the server you are downloading from may be slower than that connection or artificially throttling you. I've never had that happen on steam/origin, but a lot of servers implement caps on it's per-user upload speed.

[Stadin6]

Ok so I have a question referring towards optimization. My Isp gives me 15 down and 2 up (mbps) and if I go to a speed test website it says i have that speed. So this is where my question comes in why in apps such as steam, uplay, origin, etc. do I only get 1.8-2 down (mbps)? Is my network properly maximized? I have a direct Cat5E connection to my router my mother board says my Lan adapter does 100 mbps but yet my speeds in these apps are so low. Just wondering if there are any tips to getting more speed out of my network.

 

 

-Thanks

remember this:

 

b = bit             

B = byte                 = 8 bits

M = mega              = 1 000 000

m = milli                 = .001

G = giga                = 1 000 000 000

T = tera                 = 1 000 000 000 000

k = kilo                   = 1000 = 10^3

K = kibi                   = 1024 = 2^10

bit = Binary digIT , a 0 or a 1

mb = millibit           = impossible

Mb =megabit         = 1 000 000 bits

MB = megabyte    = 1 000 000 bytes = 8 000 000 bits

 

[Stadin6]

Ok so I have a question referring towards optimization. My Isp gives me 15 down and 2 up (mbps) and if I go to a speed test website it says i have that speed. So this is where my question comes in why in apps such as steam, uplay, origin, etc. do I only get 1.8-2 down (mbps)? Is my network properly maximized? I have a direct Cat5E connection to my router my mother board says my Lan adapter does 100 mbps but yet my speeds in these apps are so low. Just wondering if there are any tips to getting more speed out of my network.

 

 

-Thanks

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[Vitalius]

remember this:

 

b = bit             

B = byte                 = 8 bits

M = mega              = 1 000 000

m = milli                 = .001

G = giga                = 1 000 000 000

T = tera                 = 1 000 000 000 000

k = kilo                   = 1000 = 10^3

K = kibi                   = 1024 = 2^10

bit = Binary digIT , a 0 or a 1

mb = millibit           = impossible

Mb =megabit         = 1 000 000 bits

MB = megabyte    = 1 000 000 bytes = 8 000 000 bits

k = kilo = 1,000 = 10^3 is incorrect. Or at least I've never seen it mean that.

KB is Kilobyte.

Kb is Kilobit.

KiB is Kibibyte.

For reference, see the Wiki page on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

Note the table on the right:

Ignore JEDEC's prefixes. Those are for Storage (Hard Drives, Solid State Drives, etc.) as opposed to Internet Speed.