Is the speed in bits or bytes?

[Mikarri]

When a game is downloading, is the speed in bits or bytes?
For example, if I'm downloading a game, and it says the download speed is 875 KB/S, is that bits or bytes? I know Bits is lowercase and Bytes is uppercase, but I'm not sure if Steam is just making everything capitalized.

Thanks.

[WhereIsBusmin]

Bytes.


ETA: There is an explaination of the difference here, if you're curious: Click

[Mikarri]

Aha, thank you. How would I find out the speed of the download? Like how many megabytes per second?

[WhereIsBusmin]

Originally posted by Goth Hawk:

Aha, thank you. How would I find out the speed of the download? Like how many megabytes per second?

When you're downloading a game it should show your download speed next to that game in your Steam library. Alternatively, you can change to your downloads screen by going to your library and clicking "All Games" (found next to the search field) then select "Downloads" (to get back to your games list just reverse those two steps).

[Marble]

Originally posted by Goth Hawk:

Aha, thank you. How would I find out the speed of the download? Like how many megabytes per second?

You must already know where to look if you've seen your download speed is 875KB/s.

If you mean, how many MB's per second is that, it's 0.85 MB/s (megabytes). Or around 7mb/s (megabits).