Speedtest 19.57 mb/s - Download 2 mb/s

InternetSwag

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Hi guys, just got my 20mb fibre line, speedtest does well, but downloading on steam it seems to be stuck at like 1.8-2.4 mb/s

Is there a way to remedy this or whats the deal
 

Soul Assassin

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Hi guys, just got my 20mb fibre line, speedtest does well, but downloading on steam it seems to be stuck at like 1.8-2.4 mb/s

Is there a way to remedy this or whats the deal
The speedtest is megabits and Steam is megabytes, 8 bits in a byte so a 20Mbps line should be give or take 2.5MB/s.
 

Ho3n3r

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Hi guys, just got my 20mb fibre line, speedtest does well, but downloading on steam it seems to be stuck at like 1.8-2.4 mb/s

Is there a way to remedy this or whats the deal

Pardon me if it's a dumb question, but are you sure your download isn't perhaps 2.4 Megabytes instead of Megabits? Line speed is in Megabits. 20 Megabits = 2.5 Megabytes.
 

Ho3n3r

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@InternetSwag so, how do you feel now that you know you're only getting 12.5% of the speed you thought you'd be getting, even though you made the error? Will you miss the other 87.5%?
 

InternetSwag

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@InternetSwag so, how do you feel now that you know you're only getting 12.5% of the speed you thought you'd be getting, even though you made the error? Will you miss the other 87.5%?
Stupid. But I wish they would make this more obvious on their website.
But considering I was getting 150-200 kb/s before this, it is a welcome difference.
 

NeonNinja

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Stupid. But I wish they would make this more obvious on their website.
But considering I was getting 150-200 kb/s before this, it is a welcome difference.

Lol dude you've been a member of an IT forum for how many years now?
 
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