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druidarena Oct 29, 2017 @ 12:10am

Hardcapped DL speed of 1.9MB/s despite adjustments?

So I've followed all the advice I could find on forums - check my DL speeds (its ATT Uverse, so its slow, like 5-10MB/s, but more than on Steam), made sure there's no cap on speed in settings, try changing servers, make sure internet options' LAN settings automatically adjust... yet nothing seems to allow my Steam DL speed to go higher than 1.9MB/s. Anyone have any ideas? Is it a port issue?

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妖怪嘶呀 Oct 29, 2017 @ 12:10am

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Tev Oct 29, 2017 @ 12:10am

What's the speed you get on http://speedtest.net ?

druidarena Oct 29, 2017 @ 12:12am

Currently, I'm getting 15.31Mbps with a 25ms ping.

Tev Oct 29, 2017 @ 12:13am

Originally posted by druidarena:
Currently, I'm getting 15.31Mbps with a 25ms ping.

15.31 megabits per second converts to 1.91 megabytes per second.

You're not far off from what you're supposed to get.

druidarena Oct 29, 2017 @ 12:18am

I guess I'm not familiar with the conversion between the 2 which is how I missed that clue. So this is an ISP issue.
<sarcasm> Great. ATT is just the best, and not a monopoly on my area's internet. </sarcsam>

Thank you, Teutep.

synaptics Oct 29, 2017 @ 12:30am

Originally posted by Teutep:
Originally posted by druidarena:
Currently, I'm getting 15.31Mbps with a 25ms ping.
15.31 megabits per second converts to 1.91 megabytes per second.

You're not far off from what you're supposed to get.

What is difference between bits and bytes?

Tev Oct 29, 2017 @ 12:32am

Originally posted by Hat:
Originally posted by Teutep:
15.31 megabits per second converts to 1.91 megabytes per second.

You're not far off from what you're supposed to get.
What is difference between bits and bytes?

They're different units.

8 bits = 1 byte.

Why Use Bits? Why Not Bytes?

But why are we using bits in the first place? Wouldn’t it be so much easier if companies just advertised their speeds as megabytes and stopped all this confusion? As an explanation, there are quite a few out there, including megabits being more favourable from a marketing standpoint (50Mbps looks more impressive than 6.25MBps). However, the most reasonable explanation is that it’s just how network communications speeds have always been measured. Bytes are typically used when we’re calculating storage and size (500GB hard drive, 10MB file), while bits are used when we’re discussing how fast a connection is (50Mbps Internet). In fact, we’ve been measuring network activity in bits since the first modems were invented over half a century ago! This was obviously at a time where people weren’t worried about streaming their favourite TV show on Netflix but simply cared about the speed at which one device could communicate with another. As such, when an Internet provider tells you a speed in Mbps, they may simply be using the standard that has been used since the invention of modems.

synaptics Oct 29, 2017 @ 1:18am

Originally posted by Teutep:
Originally posted by Hat:
What is difference between bits and bytes?
They're different units.

8 bits = 1 byte.
Why Use Bits? Why Not Bytes?
But why are we using bits in the first place? Wouldn’t it be so much easier if companies just advertised their speeds as megabytes and stopped all this confusion? As an explanation, there are quite a few out there, including megabits being more favourable from a marketing standpoint (50Mbps looks more impressive than 6.25MBps). However, the most reasonable explanation is that it’s just how network communications speeds have always been measured. Bytes are typically used when we’re calculating storage and size (500GB hard drive, 10MB file), while bits are used when we’re discussing how fast a connection is (50Mbps Internet). In fact, we’ve been measuring network activity in bits since the first modems were invented over half a century ago! This was obviously at a time where people weren’t worried about streaming their favourite TV show on Netflix but simply cared about the speed at which one device could communicate with another. As such, when an Internet provider tells you a speed in Mbps, they may simply be using the standard that has been used since the invention of modems.

So that's why in task manager it shows 40.4 Mbps and on steam barely 5MBps