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Steam uses Byte by default.
So, 100 Megabyte per second = 800 Megabit.
Seems fitting as you said you normally get around 800 Megabit.
Steam > Settings > Downloads >>> Display download rates in bits per second (toggle on)... and that will show you in Mb/s.
For #1 this is just the long staging standard, bandwidth was so small in the early days that describing it in bytes might not have made sense. Or just wasn't appealing from a marketing standpoint and this has carried on for decades now. Good luck picking a day for the whole world to change over.
Back in the day I had 56kilobit dialup, later on I got DSL 128/768 kilobits up and down, then cable with megabit speeds. Now I'm running 40 megabits up, ~930 megabits down. I can upload at about 5 megabytes per second or download about 116.5 megabytes per second.
Downloads are in bytes, so my download speed is typically connection speed in bits / 8.
And generally when someone isn't explicit about bits and bytes when they express confusion about the performance disparity they perceive it's because they don't know about bits versus bytes and when they're used.
Yeah, it's clunky, and cumbersome, and not always intuitive. Lots of people get tripped up by it. Having to do random math in your head for no reason good reason, or because of decades of velocity behind marketing, it's bound to cause issues, sometimes.
See again the problem is "mbps" is ambiguous. And MBps and Mbps are two different things, the case of the B defines (b)its or (B)ytes. The setting in Steam is a toggle which enabled displays bits, instead of bytes. If you're sure that's not enabled and it's displaying bytes that fine. It clears one detail up.
At any rate, 8GB an hour would suggest a download speed of about 2MBps which is significantly less than what 800Mbps can get you. You could try a different download region, or there could be an issue with your ISP, or an issue anywhere along the way between you and Steam. Are you sure you don't have your speed throttled?
8GB * 1024 / 60 (minutes) / 60 (seconds) = 2.28MBps * 8 = 18.2 Mbps
thankyou, ive got both set to bits, ive changed the server loacation but talked to a mate and he recons its cus my harddrive is just really old.