Speedtest 19.57 mb/s - Download 2 mb/s

[InternetSwag]

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]

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]

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.

 

[InternetSwag]

Ah that makes sense, damn I thought I was getting 20 MB/s

 

[Aghori]

Ah that makes sense, damn I thought I was getting 20 MB/s

For a 20Mb download speed you'll need a ±200Mb line.

 

[Ho3n3r]

Ah that makes sense, damn I thought I was getting 20 MB/s

So you learn.

 

[Ho3n3r]

For a 20MB download speed you'll need a ±200Mb line.

FTFY.

 

[Ho3n3r]

@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]

@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]

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?