Steam speed higher than speetest,net shows

[Gaming4serbia]

So, rececntly i got a 300mbps internet and i wanted to show of to my friends but i couldnt get the speed on speedtest.net to show the real speed.

 

I have downloaded on steam with speeds of up to 34.6 MB/s (i have net.tv so i suppose thats why its not 37.5MB/s like it should be)

And also task manager shows 305 Mbps.

 

But speedtest.net says differently.

 

Can anyone explain why this is happening?

[Crunchy Dragon]

Have you tried changing your speedtest.net server to one that's closer to your location?

[Spotty]

Change the server location for Speedtest. Typically it will automatically pick whichever server has the best ping, however that server may not be the closest or give you the best download/upload results. Try other servers in your area to see if the results improve.

 

There may have also been something else downloading in the background or on another device while you run that Speedtest test.

[Gaming4serbia]

There is a lot of servers and they are all showing speeds below 200 or even 160.

[Gaming4serbia]

1 minute ago, Spotty said:

Change the server location for Speedtest. Typically it will automatically pick whichever server has the best ping, however that server may not be the closest or give you the best download/upload results. Try other servers in your area to see if the results improve.

 

There may have also been something else downloading in the background or on another device while you run that Speedtest test.

there is only settopbox type device on network and there was nothing downloading in the background

[KarathKasun]

Steam has a better connection to your ISP than the speedtest servers, simple as that.

[Gaming4serbia]

2 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Steam has a better connection to your ISP than the speedtest servers, simple as that.

well can the difference be ~150mbps ? isnt that a little too much ?

[KarathKasun]

3 minutes ago, Gaming4serbia said:

well can the difference be ~150mbps ? isnt that a little too much ?

Not really.  Many ISPs will do traffic shaping to connections to frivolous bandwidth wasting servers.  Depending on your location, the connection between the ISP and the rest of the network could be the limiting factor.

 

These kinda of problems crop up more and more as you move to speeds over 100mbps.

[Spotty]

43 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Steam has a better connection to your ISP than the speedtest servers, simple as that.

To add to this, your ISP may even be the local host for the Steam content you are downloading.

[Alex Atkin UK]

You should never trust a single speed test service, I have had days where speedtest.net won't even report my paltry 64Mbit correctly.

 

I tend to get more consistency with http://dslreports.com/speedtest/ myself.

 

Honestly if you are getting good speeds from Steam then I wouldn't worry about it.