steam downloads

[mjs warlord]

My local exchange is old and i can only get a maximum of 18 mb per second , that said i can do online gaming on my main rig , my wife can watch catch up television programs on the laptop and i also have 2 smart phones and a tablet , everything running at the same time without a problem.

The main problem i have is with steam , the task manager shows my ethernet speed as 18 mb per sec BUT steam only downloads at 2mb per second , i recently re-installed GTA V and it took 16 hours.

Is it possible to increase how fast steam can download games , the download speed tabs have changed , i dont know when but now it only has a limit download speed tab , its turned off.

I have seen a screenshot on a website showing a right click on steam.exe and the " tree " was opened at set priority , i have looked in both running services and processors and i cant find steamservice.exe

 

[BeardyHat]

Sorry for the short post here, but at 2 megabytes per second on downloads, you're capping out your 18Mbps connection speed.

Keep in mind that Mbps doesn't directly translate into how many megabytes per second downloads you'll see. It's generally a fraction of that.

Here's a calculator

Mbps to MB/s Converter (Megabit per second to Megabyte per second)

Mbps to MB/s converter helps you to convert the data transfer rate megabit per second to megabyte per second. Mbit/s to MBs bitrate calculator.

www.gbmb.org

 

[mjs warlord]

Sorry for the short post here, but at 2 megabytes per second on downloads, you're capping out your 18Mbps connection speed.

Keep in mind that Mbps doesn't directly translate into how many megabytes per second downloads you'll see. It's generally a fraction of that.

Here's a calculator

Mbps to MB/s Converter (Megabit per second to Megabyte per second)

Mbps to MB/s converter helps you to convert the data transfer rate megabit per second to megabyte per second. Mbit/s to MBs bitrate calculator.

www.gbmb.org

thanks for quick reply ... i put 18 in the box and it gave me 2.20 so i guess it wont go any faster

 

[Pifanjr]

I remember when 2,2 MB/s was fast. Recently my wife was downloading an update for Diablo IV and I noticed Battle.net was downloading with 60+ MB/s, which was honestly mind-boggling.

 

[Zloth]

Whether the 'b' is capitalized or not matters. MB is megaBYTE, Mb is megaBIT. There are 8 bits in a byte.

Game sizes are typically measured in bytes while network speeds are in bits. (And I really doubt anyone marking their network speeds are going to make their number 8 times smaller than the competitor's.)

 

[Rolfil]

If you have 5G then one alternative might be to look at tethering. This lets you use your 5G phone as a Wifi Hotspot and can achieve some pretty high download speeds.

However you need to have an unlimited data plan and you should carefully check your contract conditions allow this.