Download speed

[ExtremeNudist]

I have 25mbps dl speed but steam only downloads at 2.5mbps any suggestions

[Nezvo <|°_°|>]

There is a difference between megabits and megabytes, 25 is in megabits and 2.5 is in megabytes

[ExtremeNudist]

still having a problem because i just upgraded my router and my dl speed went from 2.5 mbps to 25 and my steam dl speed is still the same

[††Oglav††]

Yea

[Nezvo <|°_°|>]

Upgrading router wont increase your download speed, your ISP does that. 25 megabit IS 2.5 megabytes

[Blind Mr. Owl]

This might help you OP

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2015/04/confusion-broadband-isp-speeds-megabits-vs-megabytes.html

One megabyte is equal to eight megabits, but the terms are used in specific ways: Megabits per second (mbps) are generally used to describe the speed of an Internet connection, whereas megabytes (MB) usually refer to the size of a file or storage space.

Steam uses MB for its download speed not mbps

[ExtremeNudist]

well the router was so old that my broadband was being slowed inside my network and before my new router the dl speed was 2.5 and after it is now 25 10x faster. i used the same site to check the speed and it uses the same measurements. so speaking if my dl speed is literally 10x faster then shouldnt my steam dl speed because i was already downloading at this speed before updating my router

[Ogami]

Do this test. Post result.
http://www.speedtest.net/

[VP.Darkness]

цва

[ExtremeNudist]

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5146062802
and my old results was only 2.5mbps

[ThiccGunter]

u can upgrade it

[wuddih]

Originally posted by ExtremeNudist:

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5146062802
and my old results was only 2.5mbps

and again as already mentioned half a dozen times here ... that is megabit, steam displays in megabyte. if you get 2.5MB/s in steam, then that is your max download speed overall.

small b is bit.
big B is byte.

there is absolutely nothing wrong here except probably your correct remembrance of where you have seen that "2.5" before.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by ExtremeNudist:

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5146062802
and my old results was only 2.5mbps

That is totally correct for your 2,5 MB/s download speed. I have an VDSL 50.000 line so i get 50 Mb/s at that speedtest which is around 5,9 MB/s on Steam. Do the math.

[imminence]

Originally posted by Ogami:

Originally posted by ExtremeNudist:

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5146062802
and my old results was only 2.5mbps

That is totally correct for your 2,5 MB/s download speed. I have an VDSL 50.000 line so i get 50 Mb/s at that speedtest which is around 5,9 MB/s on Steam. Do the math.

I have the same DSL, but I get hardly close to these numbers; sometimes it works, though.
As another poster described, the connection drops sometimes to zero and then moves up slowly
to 100 kb/sec, 300...800 and so on, but then sticks around 1 MB/s, just to drop again to zero etc.

I've done lots of speed tests and all confirm, that my DSL works correctly.
And - as I mentioned - sometimes it works even on Steam.

Currently I have region GER, server Berlin. Any suggetions what I can do or is it a Steam problem?

[♥♥♥♥ luv]

Originally posted by 2Kaka2Kaka:

u can upgrade it