download speed only 3Mb/s instead of 11 mb/s

[cool piglet]

i start an internet speedtest and it goes to 93 mbps (11mbs) and on steam it is only 3 mbs?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

You're not guaranteed the same speeds, as this will depends on the distance, traffic, speed, and quality of the server.

Make sure to go into your Steam settings > Downloads > Change region to the closest server to you.

Depending on the speeds Steam is getting from the ISP, is limit to how much data they can send out at once through the ISP.

[cool piglet]

yea but my friend has less mbs on speedtest than me and he gets more mbs on steam

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Blue mushroom:

yea but my friend has less mbs on speedtest than me and he gets more mbs on steam

There are lots of things that could cause the difference. Are you connected to WiFi or Ethernet? WiFi can introduce all kinds of variables. Do you have any other devices connected to your network? Even if you aren't actively using them they can be using bandwidth in the background.

There are also things like how loaded the ISP is in your area. Unless you live in the same house you can't really expect the exact same results.

[cool piglet]

i use ethernet and well he has 2 brothers that are also pc master race and only 2 other devices that are connected to the internet and that is my phone and my roommates phone

[cool piglet]

and on battle.net its 16 mbs?
and thats more than im paying for

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

The closer you are to the server, the bettter the connection and speed, also the less of the traffic on the service the better as well.

If you're wondering if you can find away to get it to go faster? The answer is depends on distance, traffic, speed, and quality service and of the servers, and there really nothing you can do about them. Best you can try is opening up ports on your modem for your PC, which can improve the connetion quality, but may or may not affect the service speed to the servers.

[Generation X SMURF]

Shadow thats a myth, server distance really only affect latency, a server in london for example as long as it has free bandwith can max out your connection.

When gaming is when you want closest server for ping reasons, a streaming or download server doesnt care how far you are as long as there is bandwith.

And steam always maxes connection, in fact i wish steam did windows updates as well..

[Washell]

Originally posted by OCeePC:

Shadow thats a myth, server distance really only affect latency, a server in london for example as long as it has free bandwith can max out your connection.

Greater distance, more hops, greater chance of one of the hops being a bottleneck. I agree that distance isn't a factor by default, but it can't be ruled out by default either.

[Sticky Honeybuns]

Originally posted by OCeePC:

Shadow thats a myth, server distance really only affect latency, a server in london for example as long as it has free bandwith can max out your connection.

When gaming is when you want closest server for ping reasons, a streaming or download server doesnt care how far you are as long as there is bandwith.

And steam always maxes connection, in fact i wish steam did windows updates as well..

Ocee is correct. Distance only affects ping not bandwidth. A good server even half way around the world should still have a good ping though assuming you have a good ISP as well.

My steam always will
Max my bandwidth at 300mbps. I throttle steam so that I can actually do other stuff.

Also OP b=bits, B=bytes

Try switching servers OP and see if that helps.