Internet Speed not Working

[rf9661]

Hello!

This is a little complicated to understand and I hope there's a fix to. I've attached my Download Speeds which are 941MBPS but when I try to download a game on Steam or GOG Galaxy, it goes rather slow always under 30MBPS. Why won't it download with the faster speeds? Please let me know.

 

Regards,

Richard

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/5774773508.png

[Slottr]

You may have a cap set. Check the downloads tab under steam settings.

But Speedtest also measures in megabits not megabytes, which is a significant difference.

[Lurick]

Steam displays downloads in MegaBytes not Megabits, your download speed is in megabits. 1 MegaByte = 8 Megabits

It's possible the servers that are serving up the downloads are being hit pretty hard right now or they are only able to serve up content at a set limit per download.

[EPPHO]

Steam=Megabytes,speed test=megabits. @Lurickexplained like a boss

[rf9661]

Just now, Lurick said:

Steam displays downloads in MegaBytes not Megabits, your download speed is in megabits. 1 MegaByte = 8 Megabits

It's possible the servers that are serving up the downloads are being hit pretty hard right now or they are only able to serve up content at a set limit per download.

I have mine set to MegaBytes.

1 minute ago, Slottr said:

You may have a cap set. Check the downloads tab under steam settings.

I don't have 'Throttle downloads while streaming' on or a 'Limit bandwidth to' marked or selected.

[rf9661]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

Steam=Megabytes,speed test=megabits. @Lurickexplained like a boss

That's ridiculous. That means I'm only getting around 100MegaBytesPS while I pay for 1GBPS.

[Lurick]

Just now, rf9661 said:

That's ridiculous. That means I'm only getting around 100MegaBytesPS while I pay for 1GBPS.

You pay for 1 GigaBIT per second not 1 Gigabyte. If you're getting 100MegaBytes download then that's equal to around 800MegaBits, which is pretty close to what you pay for.

[rf9661]

Just now, Lurick said:

You pay for 1 GigaBIT per second not 1 Gigabyte. If you're getting 100MegaBytes download then that's equal to around 800MegaBits, which is pretty close to what you pay for.

Oh, ok! Thank you so much for your help.

 

So most files are in Gigabytes and Megabytes then and would explain the long download times.

[EPPHO]

Just now, Lurick said:

You pay for 1 GigaBIT per second not 1 Gigabyte. If you're getting 100MegaBytes download then that's equal to around 800MegaBits, which is pretty close to what you pay for.

This ^

 

Also choose nearest possible download server in steam options so maybe you level that ~200megabit difference

[Lurick]

Just now, rf9661 said:

Oh, ok! Thank you so much for your help.

 

So most files are in Gigabytes and Megabytes then and would explain the long download times.

Correct, information is transmitted over the internet as 1s and 0s, obviously. A single 1 or 0 is a bit. A combination of 8 of them is a byte which makes up the files. So there is a lot of confusion between the two but hopefully that helps explain why they are different

[kirashi]

1 hour ago, rf9661 said:

That's ridiculous. That means I'm only getting around 100MegaBytesPS while I pay for 1GBPS.

But yeah, 941 Megabits (your speed test result) is about 117 Megabytes.

If you're getting 30 Megabits from steam, that equals about 240 Megabits, which is still lower than your 941 Megabit speed test.

 

Keep in mind that Steam's content servers may limit the speed at which you download files from them.

For instance, I'm on an Island in West Canada, so one would think using Steam's Vancouver, BC servers would be faster, BUT NO, using the Seattle servers is actually faster for me because of how the internet gets to our Island.

[rf9661]

5 hours ago, Lurick said:

Correct, information is transmitted over the internet as 1s and 0s, obviously. A single 1 or 0 is a bit. A combination of 8 of them is a byte which makes up the files. So there is a lot of confusion between the two but hopefully that helps explain why they are different

 

Yea, it's transcoded through binary, right?

[rf9661]

3 hours ago, kirashi said:

But yeah, 941 Megabits (your speed test result) is about 117 Megabytes.

If you're getting 30 Megabits from steam, that equals about 240 Megabits, which is still lower than your 941 Megabit speed test.

 

Keep in mind that Steam's content servers may limit the speed at which you download files from them.

For instance, I'm on an Island in West Canada, so one would think using Steam's Vancouver, BC servers would be faster, BUT NO, using the Seattle servers is actually faster for me because of how the internet gets to our Island.

 

Ok, so even though there is a Steam Server in my city, it might NOT be the fastest?

[kirashi]

1 hour ago, rf9661 said:

Ok, so even though there is a Steam Server in my city, it might NOT be the fastest?

Depending on how your internet is routed through your ISP and through the backbone networks of the internet, correct.

 

Another good example is Rocket League servers for me. Psyonix uses Vultr VPS instances for their game servers.

For whatever reason, it's faster for me to connect to a Vultr server located in Chicago than it is to connect to some servers in Vancouver, BC.

All depends on how many hops it takes to go from your Modem to the destination server.