my WIFI is 100mgbs and I'm connected through ethernet

[mommyuwu]

I'm only getting 5mb what is going on

[Callahan420]

That link shows Download Mbps 29.04

[nullable]

Opprinnelig skrevet av george:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Mr. Gentlebot:

Steam uses compressed downloads, so the entire process uses your CPU & HDD. Downloads and installs chunks that must be decompressed. Synthetic speeds do not align with real-world loads, and the use of such equipment can determine speeds. Selecting different servers can also potentially increase the download speed.

Also its Mbps (MegaBIT), not mgbs for speedtests. Steams default download measurement is MB/s (MegaBYTE)

Nonetheless, 5MB/s appears accurate.

if i used a ssd would it download faster

If the issue is disk speed, sure.

At your current speed, of 63mbps, you could get up to 7.8MBps, a SSD would be more than fast enough. again assuming the issue was purely HDD speed. Which is a possibility, but hasn't be fully tested by you.

[mommyuwu]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Callahan420:

That link shows Download Mbps 29.04

yes so that is bellow me payed speed

[MancSoulja]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Snakub Plissken:

Opprinnelig skrevet av george:

if i used a ssd would it download faster

If the issue is disk speed, sure.

At your current speed, of 63mbps, you could get up to 7.8MBps, a SSD would be more than fast enough. again assuming the issue was purely HDD speed. Which is a possibility, but hasn't be fully tested by you.

Mechanical drives, even crappy 5200RPM ones can hit 100+MB\s,

[Cathulhu]

With just 30 Megabit, clearly something is not working properly. Talk with your ISP in getting it fixed.

[MoonC A T]

Odd that you got 63 and now it's down to 29. I agree, call your ISP.

[nullable]

Opprinnelig skrevet av MancSoulja:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Snakub Plissken:

If the issue is disk speed, sure.

At your current speed, of 63mbps, you could get up to 7.8MBps, a SSD would be more than fast enough. again assuming the issue was purely HDD speed. Which is a possibility, but hasn't be fully tested by you.

Mechanical drives, even crappy 5200RPM ones can hit 100+MB\s,

Sure they can. But the caveat is there's plenty of conditions where they'll do much less. And under the worst conditions they can fall into single MB digit MBps ranges.

There isn't one number you can state that will describe HDD performance. Favoring the benchmarks that provide the best performance number doesn't negate all the instances where real world performance is much less.

So I'll agree with other posters that HDDs are crummy. They are. At 5-7MBps I am a bit more skeptical that disk speed is the cause. I believe my post communicated that skepticism. I definitely did not claim it's certainly a disk speed issue. Only that a SSD would solve it if it was. I'm not convinced and it hasn't been tested on his system.

[Ocsabat]

MB=Mega Bytes

Mb=Mega bits

mgbs=????

[MoonC A T]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Ocsabat:

MB=Mega Bytes

Mb=Megabits

mgbs=????

mega giga bytes per sec...LOL

[ChristOurLife]

Could be steam's servers. it depends where you are.

[Mad Scientist]

Opprinnelig skrevet av george:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Mr. Gentlebot:

Steam uses compressed downloads, so the entire process uses your CPU & HDD. Downloads and installs chunks that must be decompressed. Synthetic speeds do not align with real-world loads, and the use of such equipment can determine speeds. Selecting different servers can also potentially increase the download speed.

Also its Mbps (MegaBIT), not mgbs for speedtests. Steams default download measurement is MB/s (MegaBYTE)

Nonetheless, 5MB/s appears accurate.

if i used a ssd would it download faster

without knowing the % of the Disk & CPU in use during downloads, that's not something I could answer completely, however, 5MB/s out of your near cap of 7.8MB/s likely means the limit may be the HDD/CPU. Though downloading to an SSD just to move it elsewhere, and continually do such behavior will have wear & tear on the drive, the speed is actually fairly good as-is. I can get easily do 12MB/s on a 6TB HDD, but it's limited so I don't know what its potential really is.

[Cathulhu]

Even my old as crap HDD manages to break 100 Megabytes per second.
Which is a Samsung HD103SJ which was released in 2010.
Use it for data that doesn't require fast access.

Just copied a 7 Gigabyte file from my NAS over the network, had one small dip down to 90 Megabytes per second. Otherwise about 113 Megabytes of writing speed which means the network was the bottleneck, not the drive.

If a HDD from 2010 can pull it off, then i seriously doubt that the OP's HDD is the bottleneck.

[Mad Scientist]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Cathulhu:

If a HDD from 2010 can pull it off, then i seriously doubt that the OP's HDD is the bottleneck.

It would make sense if it was a Laptop HDD, entry level ones are basically pure garbage.
Yours has an avg rating of 120/118 R/W.
Looks like mine is an avg of 156/145 R/W.

So unless OP had a laptop HDD, as stated, basically speed capped. Pointless to use an SSD.

[MoonC A T]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Catg:

Could be steam's servers. it depends where you are.

This has nothing to do with a speedtest

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Opprinnelig skrevet av george:

Opprinnelig skrevet av Cathulhu:

That makes no sense.
Wifi is wireless. Ethernet is cable based. So what exactly is it?

What speed do you pay your ISP for?
What speed to you get on speedtest.net, post a link from a test result please.

it's Ethernet i'm on about and we pay for 100mgps

Then why are you talking about your Wifi if you're connected via ethernet.