Steam download speeds

[SaladFingers]

3 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

12mb/s is not maxing out a 100Mbps connection. 12MB/s would, but that's not what he's getting. He's getting 12Mbps (12Mb/s), which would be an issue on a 100Mbps connection. 

Oh cmon.... You think he even knows the difference between MiB and MB?? It will be roughly the same. Make it 10mb/s for all I care, he is saturating the full bandwidth of his internet. He's not seeing a sync at 12mb/s, he is seeing that he is actually downloading 12 megabytes per second. So it's all working just fine.

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, SaladFingers said:

Oh cmon.... You think he even knows the difference between MiB and MB?? It will be roughly the same. Make it 10mb/s for all I care, he is saturating the full bandwidth of his internet. He's not seeing a sync at 12mb/s, he is seeing that he is actually downloading 12 megabytes per second. So it's all working just fine.

This is not MiB and MB. It's Mb and MB. mb/s is Megabits a second. MB/s is Megabytes a second. 

His speed test is 12Mbps, which is nowhere near 100Mbps, if he does have that connection. 

Look, his speed test:

This issue is not a confusion between MB and Mb, but rather an actual network issue from what I can tell. 

[haswellgamer]

I think I have figured it out. Thank you guys!

[SaladFingers]

3 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

This is not MiB and MB. It's Mb and MB. mb/s is Megabits a second. MB/s is Megabytes a second. 

His speed test is 12Mbps, which is nowhere near 100Mbps, if he does have that connection. 

Look, his speed test:

This issue is not a confusion between MB and Mb, but rather an actual network issue from what I can tell. 

 

You're right, I mixed the two. Still then, if steam reports 12mb/s that is a 100mbit line. That result above though is a whole other story, that would for the most part do 1.2-1.4 megabyte per second downloaded. If that is indeed a 100mbit connection or even an 80mbit, then yes he needs to call his ISP then.

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, haswellgamer said:

I think I have figured it out. Thank you guys!

What was the issue? I'm eager to find out if this actually was a network issue or simply a confusion between Mb and MB. 

If you internet speed normally around 100Mbps?
 

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, SaladFingers said:

 

You're right, I mixed the two. Still then, if steam reports 12mb/s that is a 100mbit line. That result above though is a whole other story, that would for the most part do 1.2 megabyte per second downloaded. If that is indeed a 100mbit connection or even an 80mbit, then yes he needs to call his ISP then.

If steam is reporting 12mb/s (which it doesn't), then that would still be 12Mbps. If steam were reporting 12MB/s, then yes, that's 100Mbps. The capital B is the key here, it's why people get confused. Laying it out as 10MB/s or 10MBps doesn't change the units being used, both are still 10 Megabytes per second. 

[haswellgamer]

well tbh, I haven't really figured it out, I am just going to spring for the satellite ISP that I just found that offers something like 40 Mbps.

[SaladFingers]

Just now, Oshino Shinobu said:

If steam is reporting 12mb/s (which it doesn't), then that would still be 12Mbps. If steam were reporting 12MB/s, then yes, that's 100Mbps. The capital B is the key here, it's why people get confused. Laying it out as 10MB/s or 10MBps doesn't change the units being used, both are still 10 Megabytes per second. 

No, because steam reports the actual file transfer speed not the connection speed. I have 50mbit and Steam will report roughly 5.7mb/s download speed. And that is why you shouldn't look into mb/s vs MB/s too much because it's not used properly anywhere. Steam just does all caps, "MB/S".

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, haswellgamer said:

well tbh, I haven't really figured it out, I am just going to spring for the satellite ISP that I just found that offers something like 40 Mbps.

If you were getting 80Mbps before, you should definitely call your ISP. It sounds like something is wrong. I would try to get the existing connection sorted before getting a new one. 

[SaladFingers]

2 minutes ago, haswellgamer said:

well tbh, I haven't really figured it out, I am just going to spring for the satellite ISP that I just found that offers something like 40 Mbps.

Perhaps you have a 10mbit connection and you were mistaken?

 

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

If you were getting 80Mbps before, you should definitely call your ISP. It sounds like something is wrong. I would try to get the existing connection sorted before getting a new one.