Download speed capped @ 30MB/s ???

[MobyJuanShinobi]

Anytime I try to download anything on steam it always downloads @ 29-30MB/s. My network speed is 200+ MB/s, I've tested it across many different servers. I've tried everything I can think of to no avail, clearing the download cache, reinstalling steam, changing the download region.... nothing works. What gives?

[Mad Scientist]

Are you sure you're using the right measurement?
Internet service speed is Mbps, Steam downloads default is MB/s. They are entirely different.

[MobyJuanShinobi]

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Are you sure you're using the right measurement?
Internet service speed is Mbps, Steam downloads default is MB/s. They are entirely different.

Ah...Possibly. Why on earth would they use that measurement? Nobody uses that...

[ReBoot]

Speaking of measurements, if those 200 are your megaBITS per second, it should be 200 Mb/s, not 200 MB/s :p
You can also set Steam to use b/s instead of B/s to display your speeds.

[MobyJuanShinobi]

I get around 200-230 Mbps so yeah, 29-30 MB/s is right.

[MobyJuanShinobi]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Speaking of measurements, if those 200 are your megaBITS per second, it should be 200 Mb/s, not 200 MB/s :p
You can also set Steam to use b/s instead of B/s to display your speeds.

Yup you are quite correct. I found the setting and I was downloading @ 237 Mbps

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by JediMemeTrick:

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Speaking of measurements, if those 200 are your megaBITS per second, it should be 200 Mb/s, not 200 MB/s :p
You can also set Steam to use b/s instead of B/s to display your speeds.

Yup you are quite correct. I found the setting and I was downloading @ 237 Mbps

You got my unadulterated envy. I'm stuck with "mere" ~60.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by JediMemeTrick:

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Are you sure you're using the right measurement?
Internet service speed is Mbps, Steam downloads default is MB/s. They are entirely different.

Ah...Possibly. Why on earth would they use that measurement? Nobody uses that...

It’s your ISP using megabit purely so your download speed sounds larger than it actually is. It’s just marketing.

[Satoru]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1082209554

Your downloads are primarily limited by

1) your cpu
2) your disk IO
3) your antivirus killing disk IO

Steam can obliterate gig connections. Your issue is local

[🅐🅩🅩🅞🅡🅡🅞]

Originally posted by Satoru:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1082209554

Your downloads are primarily limited by

1) your cpu
2) your disk IO
3) your antivirus killing disk IO

Steam can obliterate gig connections. Your issue is local

THX

[Washell]

Originally posted by MancSoulja:

Originally posted by JediMemeTrick:

Ah...Possibly. Why on earth would they use that measurement? Nobody uses that...

It’s your ISP using megabit purely so your download speed sounds larger than it actually is. It’s just marketing.

Transmission speeds were given in bits per second before ISP's even existed because there were/are various systems around that use a different number of bits for a byte. But yes, no ISP is going to offer a 30MB subscription when they were offering a 200Mb subscription yesterday. It'd be corporate suicide.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by JediMemeTrick:

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Are you sure you're using the right measurement?
Internet service speed is Mbps, Steam downloads default is MB/s. They are entirely different.

Ah...Possibly. Why on earth would they use that measurement? Nobody uses that...

Can't answer that one, but it often throws people off.

Washell's on the money most likely.

The fact DOES remain that ISPs are business SELLING products that are the internet. They're going to make the figures look as good as possible by quoting the biggest number and changing the terms.

It's like when you used to buy a stereo system - they would ALWAYS (and still do) quote how many watts front and centre.

There used to be these Hitachi boomboxes in the late 1980s that did this.

BUt they'd ALWAYS quote PMP instead of RMS. What this mean is "peak music power", or "we can hit that figure if we push the volume to max and distort it to buggery it might just hit that".

RMS is root mean square which is an "average" and realisdtic value (actually 0.707 of it's total WITHOUT being distored to ♥♥♥♥".

Sales people...

[Iceira]

Turn bits per sec on in steam settings, Reboot already point it out as i see it.