steam downloads much slower than speedtest results

[who]

the speeds are megabits (not megabytes). my internet plan and speedtest results are 330 mbps but Steam downloads 11x slower at 30mbps. any fixes? thanks

[rawWwRrr]

search. asked many times with options provided.

[KalGimpa]

330 Mbit = 41.25 MB

steam is showing ou what your dl are in MB not Mb

[Sta]

ok

[who]

Originally posted by kalcuey-freehk:

330 Mbit = 41.25 MB

steam is showing ou what your dl are in MB not Mb

read the post again please

[Darren]

Originally posted by who:

Originally posted by kalcuey-freehk:

330 Mbit = 41.25 MB

steam is showing ou what your dl are in MB not Mb

read the post again please

You are going to have to show screenshots to prove you know the difference between MB/s and mbps they aren't the same.

And by default all speedtests show mbps, and Steam shows MB/s.

[who]

Originally posted by Darren:

Originally posted by who:

read the post again please

You are going to have to show screenshots to prove you know the difference between MB/s and mbps they aren't the same.

And by default all speedtests show mbps, and Steam shows MB/s.

why would I say i know the difference if i dont lmfao? how is that gonna help me? i went to steam download settings and checked the box that shows megabytes instead of bits, that enough proof?

[Darren]

Originally posted by who:

Originally posted by Darren:

You are going to have to show screenshots to prove you know the difference between MB/s and mbps they aren't the same.

And by default all speedtests show mbps, and Steam shows MB/s.

why would I say i know the difference if i dont lmfao? how is that gonna help me? i went to steam download settings and checked the box that shows megabytes instead of bits, that enough proof?

You are fighting the uphill battle of all the people who came before you that didn't know the difference between bits and bytes and the lower case mbps is bits, and upper-case is bytes.

Also doesn't help that the ratio you are out is in the ballpark for being wrong about that. If you've checked the box to make Steam show bits instead of bytes then you'd be seeing things in the same terms.

The next suggestion would be to change your download region. You'll sometimes get much better download speeds even from much further away download regions.

[zReday]

I think this is because Steam have a lot of members, and the servers are Always online, the members playing and another things

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by who:

Originally posted by Darren:

You are going to have to show screenshots to prove you know the difference between MB/s and mbps they aren't the same.

And by default all speedtests show mbps, and Steam shows MB/s.

why would I say i know the difference if i dont lmfao? how is that gonna help me? i went to steam download settings and checked the box that shows megabytes instead of bits, that enough proof?

Clearly you don't know the difference:

Originally posted by who:

the speeds are megabits (not megabytes). my internet plan and speedtest results are 330 mbps but Steam downloads 11x slower at 30mbps. any fixes? thanks

Speedtest: 330 Megabits
Steam: 30 Megabytes per second = 240 Megabits per second.

Steams default setting is in Megabytes per second.

If the box was checked for Megabytes per second why are you reporting Steams DL speed in Megabits? Seems silly.

Show a screenshot, change the DL region if you're running at 3.75 Megabytes per second aka 30 Megabits per second