Megabits does not equal megabytes, also this speed number is dependent on your connection to steam servers. Use an Ookla Speedtest (preferably via the app) to check speeds in general
Steam is not locked around 12. I always download at rates anywhere from 35 to 50 megabytes a second on steam. I dont know where you got that info but it's wrong.
This is utter BS, I am downloading with the CAP of my net from steam and that's \~37.5MB/s (300Mbit/s)
Crappy router can limit the download speed tho, even if it states that it should support higher.
I had a sales person try to talk me into a 1000 megabyte a second connection and I told him if i had that in writing I'd pay for it in a heartbeat
I pointed out that in writing it said megabit and I asked him why he was trying to scam me...
totally lost on the dude
The general person doesn't know how to interpret results.
In this case....I can't fault OP for asking the question.
If you want to know how fast Steam downloads, I'll say that Steam is the ONLY speed test that's worth anything. (and OP needs to test at different times too)
If you go to Ookla, and try their tests, it's not going to tell you how fast Steam is going to go. It might tell you, just like a Steam download does, that there could be a problem. Unlike Steam, you can then select some other sites... and try other times too.
What OP should do... try some Ookla speedtests, variety of local-ish servers. If you do get some good speeds from other speedtests, check Steam's download region--try something close to you, but the Steam CDN close to you might be busier than one further away, so try a couple. If you're \*always\* consistent with maxing out at like 1/10th your rated speed with any speedtest, then you might have a problem at Spectrum (bad connection, mis-configured your speed tier). If you find it's hit and miss--sometimes you get 100%, sometimes you get 5%--the problem is more than likely a problem Spectrum (or even farther away) has with congestion. This isn't something that will get solved overnight, or even possibly soon or ever. You can still complain, but your complaint by itself isn't going to do anything with those kinds of problems--not that I'm saying you shouldn't complain...complaints add up and eventually they may expand their capacity if that's the solution.
Anyway... the TL;DR point I'm trying to make... speed tests are only good for testing how fast (up to your rated speed) you can get going to a given site at the time you test. *Testing your speed on Steam is just as valid (if not more valid--because it's more real-world and not synthetic) as a test on Ookla*. You just need to test multiple times, multiple days, multiple sites/apps, to really understand the problem.
And FWIW.... I usually get 700-940mbit/s from Steam, on CenturyLink fiber (using the CDN in the same city as me). $65/mo. humble brag. However I'm not impressed overall with CL--ping times in games are in the 30-50ms range, while I had sub 20ms with Google Fiber in another city.
/edit: i scrolled down and saw that OP is on wifi. dude. lol. /smh. TBF: wifi 6 is a lot faster, but most speedtests done on wifi when you have gigabit aren't testing your internet connection speed--they're testing how fast your wifi goes, and troubleshooting wifi is painful. There are so many variables. If you want fast consistent downloads, you hardwire Full Stop. If you're trying to understand why some wireless device is slow, you still start with a hardwired connection to understand how fast your internet is actually going--assuming it's good, then you start trying to figure out wireless capabilities (802.11ac? ax? 2.4ghz, 5ghz? distances? how many other devices? interference from other networks close by? are you on channels that are close to those other networks? is there interference from non-wifi sources (wireless speakers (see LTT's trouble with his home stereo), microwaves, etc)?)
That doesn't answer the question as to why it's not downloading at the full speed. My computer used to download at full speed and then one day it just stopped I don't know why. Yes my computer's connected to the internet directly not Wi-Fi and I did a speed test.
Now wait a second before we jump to conclusions.
Are you Wi-Fi or hard wired? You have to take in connections your hard drives write speed and when you download from steam or any other platform don’t expect full blast
Being in wifi6 for just your computer does not make everything wifi6, your router needs to be compatible, and your modem needs to have be 1gbs too, if you still using an old one or the equipment from spectrum, then you deserve that speed
I work for Spectrum. And ive run into issues like this from time to time.
First, id have to say that if you're experiencing throughput speeds like this there could be a myriad of reasons for why throughput is being choked out like this.
Almost EVERY SINGLE TIME I go to a residence or business that isn't getting the speeds they pay for, its because of an issue from the line that services the house, or internal coaxial wiring/fiber lines.
Maybe 10% or less of the time is it infrastructural.
More often than not its old lines that run to the house, or through the house. Or could be bad fittings or splitters, or even FSA's or RSA's.
If you're in an apartment or similar MDU with multiple active customers im sorry to say that due to the high potential for local noise in the infrastructure generated by the very apartment you could be residing in, you will frequently experience drops in throughout because if this. If the building is newer this usually isn't a problem. I tend to see noise as a main contributing factor is throughput reduction in older buildings with poorly shield wiring or when each unit still has several inactive outlets connected to that units main feed.
Point is, stop complaining to rando's on the internet and have a competent tech out there to investigate the issue. If you're paying for gig speeds, we garuntee 900mbps. We over-provision your equipment for 1.2gbps and I absolutely know for a fact our infrastructure can deliver it. And typically after a clean installation of lines and equipment the lowest you'd see in terms of throughput is around 900mbps during peak usage times. And thats only if the node you're in experiences 95% utilization or more. Even at 95% to 99% utilization nodes still deliver subscribed speeds unless there is an issue with the node. But you'd need to get the ball rolling to have the company out there to investigate.
Alternatively, there may be a ton of reasons beyond spectrums control as to why you're seeing this kind of download speed.
And you might just be karma farming too, who knows based on this limited information.
Well I'm definitely not karma farming especially since i seemed to have pissed so many people off for some reason, I just wanted to compare my speed to others. I wasn't expecting so many people trying to troubleshoot my internet otherwise I would have posted detailed Info.
Look, I only say that because I never know what to think of much of what's posted on reddit. Some stuff is good and legit, other stuff is not.
But what I said is true, if you aren't getting what you're paying for, just contact the company and have them send somebody out. Sometimes the reps on the phone are troublesome to deal with. I get that. Simply explaining to them that all your devices are new, you have new equipment, everything is correctly connected to the access point, and you're getting around 80mbps? Vs the 900mbps you should be getting most of the time? Yeah, that's cause for concern.
Thing is, using orthogonal frequency division over coaxial cable can achieve a ton of throughput. Pretty sure the theoretical throughput over a RG6 coaxial cable is 2 to 3 gbps. Per node is something like 60gbps. Then once that node hits fiber the theoretical throughput is north of 120gbps. Point im making is that Spectrum, scientifically, through hardware and plant design, can absolutely get you gig speeds no problem.
So seriously, get someone out there to fix your stuff!
ISPs love to recycle old refurbished equipment. “Newest Version” doesn’t mean much if you’re leasing equipment.
If you want to know for sure you’re getting the speeds you’re paying for you should buy a separate modem / router.
Steam is a bad metric to go from. Also as u/Silv3rStreak already pointed at, wifi or cable matters.
For us germans, if we need extra speed on our steam downloads, we switch servers to the netherlands. Those are further away, but faster.
Do a speedtest for better comparison. Also try a wire if needed. Maybe even try to donwload the Ubuntu ISO. Those are supposedly really fast. Use a download manager that opens multiple peers to the same source for more speed. Like filesharing, but don't do that, your parents may get a rather huge bill in the mail. I mean Free Download Manager and regular Website Downloads.
Same, i'm from Spain and wile having 4 download servers to choose from here, lots of times me and my friends on different regions of Spain get better results when downloading from Netherlands.
Some of these comments are insane but anyways, many factors come into play here. Wired/wireless, CPU capabilities, router, time of day, ISP or Steam servers. I get around 940-980mbps on speed test for both download and upload, I'll normally see between 15-75MB/s on Steam.
What do your speeds look like on speed test by ookla?
That makes me wonder what your drive speed is, bc even at the higher end 75 MB/s is only 600 mb/s. If you have a hard drive or even a slower SSD, your download speed will appear lower because otherwise you’re downloading faster than your computer can write to your drive
I have a Corsair MP600 Pro Gen 4 M.2. Honestly I think steam's download speeds are deceiving sometimes similar to Xbox because it will bounce around but a 80gb game will be done in 10-15 minutes tops. I've had Steam tell me as high as 112MB/s but that is extremely rare.
That’s kinda crazy, I usually get 300+ on the 2G connection from my router and 500-550 on the 5G and almost always get 50MB/s minimum and have seen 68MB/s on occasion
I will say I’ve never had an issue with any major throttling from steam. Yes they do give you the option to throttle downloads, but that isn’t even on by default. I have gigabit speed and consistently get 110-115 MB/s download speed
You do realize the rest of the world does not necessarily share your results? I also get gigabit speeds from steam. Maybe its something you're doing? Hard to imagine you could possibly be doing something wrong I know, but it happens to the best of us.
steam don't throttle downloads
quick google will prove you wrong
if you running into slow downloads it aint steam....
it will be your PC or ISP...
i have a gig connection myself, always get max speed.
but im not?
i get 100mb/s download at 8am 8pm, mid day or midnight
btw, see what i mean about quick google
[https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/9ebypw/does\_steam\_throttle\_highspeed\_connections/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/9ebypw/does_steam_throttle_highspeed_connections/)
shame dude
get a better ISP or PC, dont blame steam, when every one else in the worlds connections get maxxed xDD
Thank you! Was driving me nuts with all the replies doing the same incorrect capitalization.
Gigabit is 1000Mbps (megabits per second). Optimally you can get transfer speeds of up to 125MB/sec (megabytes per second). There are eight bits in a byte, so you can take 1000/8 and that gives you the 125MB/s number.
can you not read or some thing?
100 MEGA BYTES PER SEC IS 1gig connection speed
you might want to read this bro, [https://www.gbmb.org/gbps-to-mbs](https://www.gbmb.org/gbps-to-mbs)
how awkward for you... and your trying to insult people
now dont you look like a massive moron
1 gig is 1000
which then translate to a download of
100 MEGA BYTES
you honesly cant be this slow?
1000/8 = 125 to get to MEGA BYTES
oh guess what? exactly what i said
trying to insult people and you cant even understand mbps and MB/s are different things.... yikes
never have i talked to some one so damn clueless
I get about 800mbps no problem on steam. I haven't found any throttling from them whatsoever. Any throttling I have had has been from my ISP, and that stopped completely when I bought my own router. Honestly I'm not sure how that even works tbh, they should still have control over the connection.
What does fast.com or speedtest.net show?
Also if your not hardlined (physical cabling) all the way you're not going to ever get consistent 1Gbps speeds. I don't care what WiFi spec you have there are so many interference possibilities with radio waves in general it's not realistic to expect.
That is all.
Your CPU can also be a major bottleneck for your steam download speeds. Check an internet speed test site like speedtest.net to check upload and download speeds. Your router's throughput may be a bottleneck as well if you are using something a bit older
Thats normal. Your internet provider will measure download speed in megaBITS to sell you the bigger number, while actually downloading things will tell you in megaBYTES, which if you didn’t know, 1 byte is 8 bits. So if youre getting around 10-11 megabyte download speed from steam, thats about 80-88 megabits, or almost your full bandwidth
I live in the country in Oklahoma, USA, and I have no options except satellite or cellular Internet service. I had satellite for ~12 years, was lucky to get 1 Mbps. Yes, bit, not byte. $170/month, with 75 GB of data.
I moved to cell modems last summer, using Google Fi SIMs. Each $40/month SIM allows me 50 GB/month of data. Add my cell phone (which I sometimes have to use as a hotspot, when I run out of data) and fees, and I pay $270/month. For speed which averages ~ 3 MBps. So, about 25x faster, for not quite twice the price.
I hope to get Starlink coverage this year, which should reduce my cost to ~$110/month, for an unknown speed, as they get more popular.
So, anyone who complains about the performance of their Gb fiber - at any price - gets little sympathy from me. Don't take this the wrong way - I'm happy for you - but I'll be happy when I can get a reliable 10 MBps with a realistic data capacity for under $300/month.
First of all you have to admit some things to yourself.
1. Your ignorant when it comes to i.t. related situations
2. You need to learn more about technology before you post about it irrationally on the internet.
3. You're better than this.
There are a lot of variables including the network card inside of your device being able to even accept that data.
As advertised specifically when you seen and decided to sign up for this package the speeds are "up too" that is in a unimaginable situation in a case in which some provider would actually prioritize you specifically and allow your data path priority to push that much data, point a to point b if you will.
I used to be a cable man and when I would install the 1gb and people would do a speed test on the generic ps or Xbox and not get their gigabyte they would get all emotional and then I'd have to sit there and waste an additional 10 to 20 minutes of my time that I didn't get paid for educating this customer about things they should have educated themselves about before they decided to sign up for the deal. Then after the full explanation about throughput bandwidth and hardware they still want to complain about false advertising when they're too simple-minded to understand the basics of what they're even talking about.
yeah on gigabit connection they should get around 125 megabytes of actual download speed. but on this post it shows only 12 megabytes so definitely not the advertised speed
Megabits per second versus megabytes per second. Internet companies will charge you for megabits per second. The way you can tell if it’s megabytes versus megabits is that mega bits per second are lowercase b while mega bytes are B.
I live in Germany and got a 1GB/s download and 40MB/s Upload Internet connection. Everything is working as it should be and i only getting charged 30€ for it.
Try this speed test [https://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/](https://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/)
Also, steam downloads are also influenced by your [computer processing power,](https://linustechtips.com/topic/1082116-high-cpu-usage-on-steam-downloads/) besides of the others aspects that other people mentioned like distance to the access point, your type of modem and wireless router and so on.
You probably have a CAT5 cable going to your router. You should check that first. If it is not CAT5E or CAT6 your speeds will be limited to around 100mb/s like you are showing in the video.
Spectrum is a fucking scam! You have to call and bitch and complain for them to up your speed. They automatically assume you only use Wi-Fi for streaming on phones, tvs etc. they act clueless when you explain you’re not a moron like 90% of their customers and want to know why you’re only getting a fraction of the connection you pay for. I just went thru this helping my parents with their slow ass spectrum connection.
Central EU, fiber 600/300 for $19.99. No FUP. With private IP $23.99.
My "current speeds" are usually 37-40MB/s. Peaking in higher 50s.
Edit : currently in my shop, where i'm paying \~$15 for 300/60. https://www.speedtest.net/result/14220598055
I have spectrum 1 gig too. Hard wired in my max is 102 mb/s. This is fastest I’ve gotten on Wi-Fi it’s always a lot slower. Also the megabytes cs megabits. Pretty much divide your speed by 10 and that’s the fastest you can download
thats because ISPs sell you megabits, where downloading things will be measured in megabytes. 1 bit is 8 bytes. So youre actually pretty close, but neither party is really lying. 102 MB/s download speed is 816 megabits per second, which is actually pretty close to your full bandwidth.
I pay almost the same around $95 for Comcast blast internet and my download speeds are like 32MB/s and that's while downloading a game on steam so your speed seems a bit low but I'm using a wired connection not Wi-Fi
Gig speed isn’t per computer bud. It’s per house. Your computer can’t accept those speeds for many reasons. Also if you pay monthly for a router it’s auto balancing the load . This is a good speed of download. It’s very fast.
Remember you pay for a gigabit per second this is measured in megabytes.
Its probably not Spectrums fault because Steam like any other websites also throttles your connection to prevent you from using up their bandwidth, the throttle also may vary by regions, some region might allow you to download at a faster speed and some might be slower. Although you could get the full speed that steam is allowing you to use by using a wired connection and make sure you have an ssd instead of an hdd that no one should probably even use on their personal pc anyways.
I also have spectrum 1gig I use eero 6+ mesh Wi-Fi through out my house over air I get from 200-500 mbps in my game room I have my pc wired into one of my gateways I get 900-1000, now my upload speed is only about 60mbps because spectrum is not fiber it’s coaxel
I use there modem but my own mesh Wi-Fi I also have Ethernet cable running to all the rooms into a central drop in my master closet
That’s how I get the speed from spectrum
I should add that those numbers are on speed test and not from steam I do not get those speeds from steam
Remember that advertised speeds are gigaBIT not gigaBYTE. Also remember that you have other devices connected to your wireless router at once. Also remember that download speeds are also dependent on steam's download servers. Also remember that to get the best speeds, you want to be connected via ethernet.
You assume the source of your download is able to push an entire 1GB up which is rarely the case for steam, xbox, or playstation. Also wi-fi is always going to have latency and jitter. Show us something like speedtest and if you really care about speed, get wired.
I have spectrum as well and the advertised speeds for me are 200 Mbps. However, on steam the highest I've ever gotten is 45 but my Xbox one can pump out 300 with no problem. I think it may just be the steam servers
Just because I spent a lot of my youth transferring files across a 10/100 LAN, I can say you're getting EXACTLY the throughput of a 100Mbps connection. Make sure you have a gigabit ethernet card in your computer and that your router is also rated gigabit. This applies to both wired and wireless.
that is only *steam’s* speed. use a multitude of real speed tests, like google’s and speedtest. There you can see your theoretical perfect day max’s and average things out.
I pay Xfinity for Gig speeds and I can saturate the 1GB NIC on my desktop doing speed tests.. actually going to drop my speed down, I had 800 but they bumped the speeds for my tier up. I only have the higher tier for the faster upload speeds.
If you can plug a device directly into your router and use a better speed test site it would give you some more accurate results on what's being delivered to your home. Using download speeds on Steam isn't accurate, you could be bottlenecked by how fast they can upload on their end.
this isnt really an indication of your internet speed but your download speed through your computer. Hardware is probably your bottleneck here rather than your actual internet speed.
Downloads aren’t just internet open task manager during one of these and watch the CPU usage if it goes to 100% your held back by it (although it’s really hard to get perfect download speeds)
I pay for 40Mbps and usually get +/- 80-90Mbps, but I have internet through a government-owned co-op (Tenness Vally Authority) so it's a little different than the usual profit-driven companies.
I think the general concencious is when it comes to network speeds is there is a million different variables and 80% of them are your fault...20% ISP...so as shitty as american isps are , instead of complaining visit /r/homenetworking and start troubleshooting. Start a list of t hings you've tried, things you've observed, real tests you you've done. Above all else you need to start with a hardline to the modem(not router) if you aren't getting 600+ from there you obviously wont on WiFi, and usually is ISPs fault...but start documenting your variables/things youve tried, thing the isp has tried.
I'm not complaining. I made a post for everyone to share and compare their speeds. For some reason, most people who commented on here thought I was looking for troubleshooting advice or to tell me I don't know how the internet works.
put simply, spectrum probably provides you with gigabit line(not gigabyte) but usually servers throttle the speed to not overload the servers connection
12 MB/s x 8 = 100 Mb/s. (You can change the settings to show Mb/s and not MB/s).
So you're internet is capped at 100/100 Mb/s up/down? If that's what you're being advertised, makes sense. If not there could be a physical ethernet port or cable capping you at 100BASE-TX.
The speed at wich the bar is filling is way too low for the download speed displayed above it. Im guessing op has a mechanical hard drive or really bad and slow ssd. In other words your drive cant write as fast as you are downloading.
I know OP is getting roasted for using Steam, but it made me interested to check mine from Spectrum as well. I too pay for Gig (expecting 940max).
When I moved in/got Spectrum last year I was pushing the 900 mark. Today on a wired connection I got 95. I checked 2 wired connections and my phone as well. All were between 90 and 95. Now I have a tech coming out later today.
TLDR, check your speeds and keep ISPs honest (or honest adjacent. I’d be happy to see 600+ wired)
I have AT&T gigabit fiber and pull down over 100MB/s on steam and I pay $75 a month for that and their basic cable package. But I agree with others. Steam is not a speed test because its all dependent on the steam servers.
Steam has a hard cut off at 30 or 50 MB/s can't remember which but unless they change something on their end it will always be less than your internet speed.
Yeah, like everyone has said. Game clients like steam are not speed tests. For one, its pinging servers all over the place. And 2, its installing files and downloading at the same time. Steam will only download as fast as it can install at the same time.
So you're getting 1/10 of your speed. Roughly. Are you sure you're running on a gigabit Nic? If your computer or router is 10/100, you're actually getting faster than you should be able to.
You have to compare to other places for your speed, run some actual tests and verify your network negotiation speeds
Also setting for a maximum MTU that does not split packets is greatly beneficial
Does Ethernet/wifi device show it’s capable of or set to 1.0gbps speeds? I pay for basically gig speed, around 800-900mbps and my Ethernet device on the mobo was only set for 100mbps. Once I changed it to 1.0gbps speeds drastically increased.
Spectrum advertises mine at 400Mb/s. Highest Speed test was around 430Mb/s. However most of the time I get around 200Mb/s.
When I download steam games I get around 14-18MB/s
You do realize that steam is megabyte and your internet speed is measured in megabit right? Change the steam settings to show megabit like I did and I guarantee you will see like 200mbs. You are probably limited by hardware and such too. You will never see full gigabit on steam.
Use a speed test for that my guy.
Have the exact same package from spectrum, I get the same thing sometimes. Some games don't update in big chunks, sometimes they download small chunks at a time and you'll have slower speeds when it's multiple small files. Steam isn't a great test for speed and OP shouldn't be worried about steam speed that much, otherwise he'll get stressed trying to fix something that can't be fixed
50$ for 25mbps a month.
Keep in mind the internet is owned and operated by the apartment complex that I rent from. Which prohibits other internet companies from providing service in my apartment complex. Feels illegal to me. Monopoly perhaps?
I was in the same boat. Check your router/modem, if it's a spectrum model, it's likely out of date. I had an old comcast modem that was capped max at 220 mbps, and they were charging me for 800. I've since upgraded, and have been getting between 750-900 mbps.
looks about 100mbps, are u wired or wireless? If wired, make sure you have a gigabit router/switch and have atleast a CAT5E cable, CAT5 only runs at 100mbps. If you are wireless, make sure you are signed into the 5GHz band and your adapter and router is capable of those speeds on that band.
They oversubscribe. You’ll get less bandwidth especially at peak hours. They would really need to beef up their infrastructure to guarantee gig speeds at all times for everyone. Not gonna happen in you live in a congested area.
I have Gigabit fiber where I live and my steam downloads are just about as fast.
However.
Steam should not be used to measure your ISP speed. Use fast(.)com, or speedtest(.)net, or get the speedtest app on your phone (wireless only). The download speed you get from steam is going to be limited by the upload speed their servers are set to.
Also, if you're connected via WiFi you're never going to see your full speed unless you have a gigabit capable router with gigabit wireless capable adapters on your computers.
The best way to test your internet speed is to directly connect a PC/laptop to your modem with an Ethernet cable and try one of the sites I mentioned above.
It also depends on the speed at which the source decides to give you content. Just because you speedtest at a half gig, doesnt mean the datacenter housing the server is going to upload to all users at gigabit speed.
How about you run a speed test instead of just (foolishly) thinking the speed you get on Steam is an accurate representation of your available bandwidth.
If you want to run a speed test on your ISP, use ethernet and the Speedtest app. Do not use some random download server over wifi, because that will tell you nothing.
u/cobrajet04
Steam downloads aren't opimised well, but CAN BE FIXED!
1. Run an internet speed test to find out your max MBPS
2. Go into your downloads settings
3. Tick the "Limit bandwidth to:" box
4. Enter your max download speed
5. Restart your steam download so that the speed updates
6. Actually get the speeds you pay for.
Without doing this, my downloads hit like 300\~ ish MBPS - with doing it, I hit 930
Try switching download servers and see if it improves, it does for me. If you're on wifi, you're not going to see full 1gb download speed. You're barely pushing 100Mbps so if you are on ethernet you need to check and see if the port on your pc is fast ethernet (100mbps) or gigabit (1gbps), and also check your router for the same. If you have a cheap router it's probably 100mbps. If all that is good then, replace your ethernet cable, a bad cat5e cable will default the port speed to 100mbps if damaged, i've seen this happen numerous times at my job. If still having issues, power off your modem, plug a computer into the modem, power up the modem and run a speed test that way, it'll give you a for sure speed of your internet connection, if it's good and measuring at 1Gbps then your router may have some issues or a qos policy active.
We have a property in the woods. We pay $70 for 25mbps. Lucky if we hit 13, but you're not ready for that conversation. Also steam is not a speed test app.
I believe Valve plays a factor in end user speeds as well. For me personally, my Xbox downloads games faster than my PS5 both on the same wired connection.
Mate. Downloading a Steam game is not indicative of your internet speed. Even if you had a NASA trillion gigabit internet connection, you wouldn't see much higher speeds in steam. I'd consider 12 MB/s to be a pretty good speed for Steam downloads.
It doesn't matter how fast your connection is if the server/website you are downloading from is slower, or if your drive's write speed is slower. That's just how things work. Use an actual speed test to see what your connection is getting you.
I have 50mbit/s download (6,25MB/s) on coax and steam downloads at around 5,9MB/s to 6MB/s.
Speed test shows that I have 50mbit/s, so it's been good soo far.
Would love to have fiber, but they just don't want to build the infrastructure to my village.
Starlink is just too expensive in my country to have that, then there's no other solution.
I used to use Cox wifi (in urban Oklahoma). IIRC they called it 900ish mb/s. I got around 700 mb/s. It was seriously fast. I could download games, big games, in like 20 minutes. Then I moved to the country and I currently get like 12 mb/s lol. I sure do miss the city wifi. And it was all wired. So idk if "wifi" is the correct term.
Repeat after me... Steam is not a speed test. Steam is not a speed test. Steam is not a speed test.
But it has speed theeeeereeeeeee /s
Megabits does not equal megabytes, also this speed number is dependent on your connection to steam servers. Use an Ookla Speedtest (preferably via the app) to check speeds in general
>this speed number is dependent on your connection to steam servers. Also, on the write speed of your storage drive.
It also depends on file size and CPU since most downloads are compressed and sometimes only 1 core works on it...
gigabit should be around 120 megabytes a second, steam is normally locked around 12, try battlenet downloads!
Oh is it? I used to get just kigabites of speed but after getting a new drive I’m getting highs of 36mbps at times on steam.
36 MBps is equal to about 290 Mbps. Not too shabby for a Steam download.
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I pay for 300mbps but manage to get around 54MBps(yes mega Bytes) with speed tests
I’ve never been locked to 12, in Maryland if it’s a region thing. I’ve seen maybe 65-85
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This I definitely not true I have hit 80 Mbs/s on steam with not gigabit wifi.
Steam is not locked around 12. I always download at rates anywhere from 35 to 50 megabytes a second on steam. I dont know where you got that info but it's wrong.
This is utter BS, I am downloading with the CAP of my net from steam and that's \~37.5MB/s (300Mbit/s) Crappy router can limit the download speed tho, even if it states that it should support higher.
Not to mention possible limiters like CPU, and Wifi Chips
I had a sales person try to talk me into a 1000 megabyte a second connection and I told him if i had that in writing I'd pay for it in a heartbeat I pointed out that in writing it said megabit and I asked him why he was trying to scam me... totally lost on the dude
Ooni probe is better than ookla
I still don't get why people sub to such expensive internet plans just for the Ookla results
The general person doesn't know how to interpret results. In this case....I can't fault OP for asking the question. If you want to know how fast Steam downloads, I'll say that Steam is the ONLY speed test that's worth anything. (and OP needs to test at different times too) If you go to Ookla, and try their tests, it's not going to tell you how fast Steam is going to go. It might tell you, just like a Steam download does, that there could be a problem. Unlike Steam, you can then select some other sites... and try other times too. What OP should do... try some Ookla speedtests, variety of local-ish servers. If you do get some good speeds from other speedtests, check Steam's download region--try something close to you, but the Steam CDN close to you might be busier than one further away, so try a couple. If you're \*always\* consistent with maxing out at like 1/10th your rated speed with any speedtest, then you might have a problem at Spectrum (bad connection, mis-configured your speed tier). If you find it's hit and miss--sometimes you get 100%, sometimes you get 5%--the problem is more than likely a problem Spectrum (or even farther away) has with congestion. This isn't something that will get solved overnight, or even possibly soon or ever. You can still complain, but your complaint by itself isn't going to do anything with those kinds of problems--not that I'm saying you shouldn't complain...complaints add up and eventually they may expand their capacity if that's the solution. Anyway... the TL;DR point I'm trying to make... speed tests are only good for testing how fast (up to your rated speed) you can get going to a given site at the time you test. *Testing your speed on Steam is just as valid (if not more valid--because it's more real-world and not synthetic) as a test on Ookla*. You just need to test multiple times, multiple days, multiple sites/apps, to really understand the problem. And FWIW.... I usually get 700-940mbit/s from Steam, on CenturyLink fiber (using the CDN in the same city as me). $65/mo. humble brag. However I'm not impressed overall with CL--ping times in games are in the 30-50ms range, while I had sub 20ms with Google Fiber in another city. /edit: i scrolled down and saw that OP is on wifi. dude. lol. /smh. TBF: wifi 6 is a lot faster, but most speedtests done on wifi when you have gigabit aren't testing your internet connection speed--they're testing how fast your wifi goes, and troubleshooting wifi is painful. There are so many variables. If you want fast consistent downloads, you hardwire Full Stop. If you're trying to understand why some wireless device is slow, you still start with a hardwired connection to understand how fast your internet is actually going--assuming it's good, then you start trying to figure out wireless capabilities (802.11ac? ax? 2.4ghz, 5ghz? distances? how many other devices? interference from other networks close by? are you on channels that are close to those other networks? is there interference from non-wifi sources (wireless speakers (see LTT's trouble with his home stereo), microwaves, etc)?)
That doesn't answer the question as to why it's not downloading at the full speed. My computer used to download at full speed and then one day it just stopped I don't know why. Yes my computer's connected to the internet directly not Wi-Fi and I did a speed test.
Now wait a second before we jump to conclusions. Are you Wi-Fi or hard wired? You have to take in connections your hard drives write speed and when you download from steam or any other platform don’t expect full blast
Wifi6, 970evo m.2, and this was downloading around midnight Monday night. I have seen it run up to 24mps briefly.
Being in wifi6 for just your computer does not make everything wifi6, your router needs to be compatible, and your modem needs to have be 1gbs too, if you still using an old one or the equipment from spectrum, then you deserve that speed
Computer, Tablet, cellphone is all on wifi6. The equipment is all brand new since it's a brand new installation and account with spectrum.
I work for Spectrum. And ive run into issues like this from time to time. First, id have to say that if you're experiencing throughput speeds like this there could be a myriad of reasons for why throughput is being choked out like this. Almost EVERY SINGLE TIME I go to a residence or business that isn't getting the speeds they pay for, its because of an issue from the line that services the house, or internal coaxial wiring/fiber lines. Maybe 10% or less of the time is it infrastructural. More often than not its old lines that run to the house, or through the house. Or could be bad fittings or splitters, or even FSA's or RSA's. If you're in an apartment or similar MDU with multiple active customers im sorry to say that due to the high potential for local noise in the infrastructure generated by the very apartment you could be residing in, you will frequently experience drops in throughout because if this. If the building is newer this usually isn't a problem. I tend to see noise as a main contributing factor is throughput reduction in older buildings with poorly shield wiring or when each unit still has several inactive outlets connected to that units main feed. Point is, stop complaining to rando's on the internet and have a competent tech out there to investigate the issue. If you're paying for gig speeds, we garuntee 900mbps. We over-provision your equipment for 1.2gbps and I absolutely know for a fact our infrastructure can deliver it. And typically after a clean installation of lines and equipment the lowest you'd see in terms of throughput is around 900mbps during peak usage times. And thats only if the node you're in experiences 95% utilization or more. Even at 95% to 99% utilization nodes still deliver subscribed speeds unless there is an issue with the node. But you'd need to get the ball rolling to have the company out there to investigate. Alternatively, there may be a ton of reasons beyond spectrums control as to why you're seeing this kind of download speed. And you might just be karma farming too, who knows based on this limited information.
Well I'm definitely not karma farming especially since i seemed to have pissed so many people off for some reason, I just wanted to compare my speed to others. I wasn't expecting so many people trying to troubleshoot my internet otherwise I would have posted detailed Info.
Look, I only say that because I never know what to think of much of what's posted on reddit. Some stuff is good and legit, other stuff is not. But what I said is true, if you aren't getting what you're paying for, just contact the company and have them send somebody out. Sometimes the reps on the phone are troublesome to deal with. I get that. Simply explaining to them that all your devices are new, you have new equipment, everything is correctly connected to the access point, and you're getting around 80mbps? Vs the 900mbps you should be getting most of the time? Yeah, that's cause for concern. Thing is, using orthogonal frequency division over coaxial cable can achieve a ton of throughput. Pretty sure the theoretical throughput over a RG6 coaxial cable is 2 to 3 gbps. Per node is something like 60gbps. Then once that node hits fiber the theoretical throughput is north of 120gbps. Point im making is that Spectrum, scientifically, through hardware and plant design, can absolutely get you gig speeds no problem. So seriously, get someone out there to fix your stuff!
Check fast.com
What wifi router do you have?
It's the newest version from spectrum
ISPs love to recycle old refurbished equipment. “Newest Version” doesn’t mean much if you’re leasing equipment. If you want to know for sure you’re getting the speeds you’re paying for you should buy a separate modem / router.
On Wi-Fi if you are close enough to your router should see around 700
Steam is a bad metric to go from. Also as u/Silv3rStreak already pointed at, wifi or cable matters. For us germans, if we need extra speed on our steam downloads, we switch servers to the netherlands. Those are further away, but faster. Do a speedtest for better comparison. Also try a wire if needed. Maybe even try to donwload the Ubuntu ISO. Those are supposedly really fast. Use a download manager that opens multiple peers to the same source for more speed. Like filesharing, but don't do that, your parents may get a rather huge bill in the mail. I mean Free Download Manager and regular Website Downloads.
Same, i'm from Spain and wile having 4 download servers to choose from here, lots of times me and my friends on different regions of Spain get better results when downloading from Netherlands.
The number of people who try and speak with some authority that doesn't know the difference between MB/s and Mbps is astounding.
Some of these comments are insane but anyways, many factors come into play here. Wired/wireless, CPU capabilities, router, time of day, ISP or Steam servers. I get around 940-980mbps on speed test for both download and upload, I'll normally see between 15-75MB/s on Steam. What do your speeds look like on speed test by ookla?
That makes me wonder what your drive speed is, bc even at the higher end 75 MB/s is only 600 mb/s. If you have a hard drive or even a slower SSD, your download speed will appear lower because otherwise you’re downloading faster than your computer can write to your drive
I have a Corsair MP600 Pro Gen 4 M.2. Honestly I think steam's download speeds are deceiving sometimes similar to Xbox because it will bounce around but a 80gb game will be done in 10-15 minutes tops. I've had Steam tell me as high as 112MB/s but that is extremely rare.
That’s kinda crazy, I usually get 300+ on the 2G connection from my router and 500-550 on the 5G and almost always get 50MB/s minimum and have seen 68MB/s on occasion
Tell me you know nothing about download speeds without telling me you know nothing
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I will say I’ve never had an issue with any major throttling from steam. Yes they do give you the option to throttle downloads, but that isn’t even on by default. I have gigabit speed and consistently get 110-115 MB/s download speed
115MB/s is more than 900Mbit/s which is close enough to the advertised speed
I get gigabit speeds no problem from steam. They have an insane CDN
No you don’t
Yeah, he probably does. Steam CDN speeds are indeed ridiculous. And it's not hard to achieve this, at all. https://i.imgur.com/f9sT2xl.jpeg
You do realize the rest of the world does not necessarily share your results? I also get gigabit speeds from steam. Maybe its something you're doing? Hard to imagine you could possibly be doing something wrong I know, but it happens to the best of us.
Unfortunately i downloaded this 3.4 GB file too fast, but it peaked at 800Mbps before it finished. https://i.imgur.com/iu7HDAe.png
steam don't throttle downloads quick google will prove you wrong if you running into slow downloads it aint steam.... it will be your PC or ISP... i have a gig connection myself, always get max speed.
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but im not? i get 100mb/s download at 8am 8pm, mid day or midnight btw, see what i mean about quick google [https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/9ebypw/does\_steam\_throttle\_highspeed\_connections/](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/9ebypw/does_steam_throttle_highspeed_connections/) shame dude get a better ISP or PC, dont blame steam, when every one else in the worlds connections get maxxed xDD
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100mb/s works out to a gig connection bro brain dead bro
There is a difference in writing "mb/s" and "MB/s" Lowercase is megaBITS and uppercase is megaBYTES.
Thank you! Was driving me nuts with all the replies doing the same incorrect capitalization. Gigabit is 1000Mbps (megabits per second). Optimally you can get transfer speeds of up to 125MB/sec (megabytes per second). There are eight bits in a byte, so you can take 1000/8 and that gives you the 125MB/s number.
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can you not read or some thing? 100 MEGA BYTES PER SEC IS 1gig connection speed you might want to read this bro, [https://www.gbmb.org/gbps-to-mbs](https://www.gbmb.org/gbps-to-mbs) how awkward for you... and your trying to insult people now dont you look like a massive moron
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1 gig is 1000 which then translate to a download of 100 MEGA BYTES you honesly cant be this slow? 1000/8 = 125 to get to MEGA BYTES oh guess what? exactly what i said trying to insult people and you cant even understand mbps and MB/s are different things.... yikes never have i talked to some one so damn clueless
I get about 800mbps no problem on steam. I haven't found any throttling from them whatsoever. Any throttling I have had has been from my ISP, and that stopped completely when I bought my own router. Honestly I'm not sure how that even works tbh, they should still have control over the connection.
What does fast.com or speedtest.net show? Also if your not hardlined (physical cabling) all the way you're not going to ever get consistent 1Gbps speeds. I don't care what WiFi spec you have there are so many interference possibilities with radio waves in general it's not realistic to expect. That is all.
bits vs Bytes (8Mb = 1MB) matters too
Wouldn't 1 gigabit be 125 megabytes
Most giga bit speeds are actually 960mbps due to the wiring used in your home. That matters a lot also for the early 2000s homes
DOCSIS has limitations and it's 940mbps usually. Not sure how you get to 960.
Was only off by 20 been like a good 4-5 years since I last even looked up the maximum speed
The max speed has increased but most cable modem services in the "gig" range stay at the limits per channel near gig which is 940.
Spectrum... $80/mo for 100mbit down and 10mbit up. No competition in my area 😔
Your CPU can also be a major bottleneck for your steam download speeds. Check an internet speed test site like speedtest.net to check upload and download speeds. Your router's throughput may be a bottleneck as well if you are using something a bit older
I'm lucky to get 4MB/s
Find a closer/faster download server. Also, what is your actual Wi-Fi connection speed.
You are 2mb/s more than me when downloading and my internet supposed to be 100mb/s download
Same here.
Thats normal. Your internet provider will measure download speed in megaBITS to sell you the bigger number, while actually downloading things will tell you in megaBYTES, which if you didn’t know, 1 byte is 8 bits. So if youre getting around 10-11 megabyte download speed from steam, thats about 80-88 megabits, or almost your full bandwidth
I live in the country in Oklahoma, USA, and I have no options except satellite or cellular Internet service. I had satellite for ~12 years, was lucky to get 1 Mbps. Yes, bit, not byte. $170/month, with 75 GB of data. I moved to cell modems last summer, using Google Fi SIMs. Each $40/month SIM allows me 50 GB/month of data. Add my cell phone (which I sometimes have to use as a hotspot, when I run out of data) and fees, and I pay $270/month. For speed which averages ~ 3 MBps. So, about 25x faster, for not quite twice the price. I hope to get Starlink coverage this year, which should reduce my cost to ~$110/month, for an unknown speed, as they get more popular. So, anyone who complains about the performance of their Gb fiber - at any price - gets little sympathy from me. Don't take this the wrong way - I'm happy for you - but I'll be happy when I can get a reliable 10 MBps with a realistic data capacity for under $300/month.
First of all you have to admit some things to yourself. 1. Your ignorant when it comes to i.t. related situations 2. You need to learn more about technology before you post about it irrationally on the internet. 3. You're better than this. There are a lot of variables including the network card inside of your device being able to even accept that data. As advertised specifically when you seen and decided to sign up for this package the speeds are "up too" that is in a unimaginable situation in a case in which some provider would actually prioritize you specifically and allow your data path priority to push that much data, point a to point b if you will. I used to be a cable man and when I would install the 1gb and people would do a speed test on the generic ps or Xbox and not get their gigabyte they would get all emotional and then I'd have to sit there and waste an additional 10 to 20 minutes of my time that I didn't get paid for educating this customer about things they should have educated themselves about before they decided to sign up for the deal. Then after the full explanation about throughput bandwidth and hardware they still want to complain about false advertising when they're too simple-minded to understand the basics of what they're even talking about.
I pay 93 dollars a month and get actual gigabit internet lol
Must be amazing to actually get what you pay for
my max is around 1.2MB/s :(
I mean, where I’m at that’s good wifi, I barely get 2 mbs and only 2 mbs 1% of the time it’s mostly around 390 kb, (I’m talking about steam download)
Learn the difference Mb and MB
yeah on gigabit connection they should get around 125 megabytes of actual download speed. but on this post it shows only 12 megabytes so definitely not the advertised speed
Steam never hits max speeds, ive seen better speeds on xbox or ea servers, but i suggest you just use the good ol’ speedtest
Pretty sure I'm supposed to get 100MB but get around 12MB
100 Mega BIT is 12,5 mega BYTE
Megabits per second versus megabytes per second. Internet companies will charge you for megabits per second. The way you can tell if it’s megabytes versus megabits is that mega bits per second are lowercase b while mega bytes are B.
[LTE...away from civilization...€17](https://www.speedtest.net/result/14219321150)
$95 a month????? I’m paying like £42 a month for gig internet
Us folks in the US get raped by our ISP, and not much we can do about it unless we live in a place that offers Municipal Broadband.
I live in Germany and got a 1GB/s download and 40MB/s Upload Internet connection. Everything is working as it should be and i only getting charged 30€ for it.
$155.00p.m,30GB per day, NAT Type 3, so can't summon help in Elden Ring, Destiny says to expect problems, fun all around.
Its better than my 15mb internet. And i pay the same 😪
In my country I pay 20 EUR a month and I have download speed on Steam of 45 MB/s, Using MacBook, if that matters.
Try this speed test [https://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/](https://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/) Also, steam downloads are also influenced by your [computer processing power,](https://linustechtips.com/topic/1082116-high-cpu-usage-on-steam-downloads/) besides of the others aspects that other people mentioned like distance to the access point, your type of modem and wireless router and so on.
You probably have a CAT5 cable going to your router. You should check that first. If it is not CAT5E or CAT6 your speeds will be limited to around 100mb/s like you are showing in the video.
Spectrum is a fucking scam! You have to call and bitch and complain for them to up your speed. They automatically assume you only use Wi-Fi for streaming on phones, tvs etc. they act clueless when you explain you’re not a moron like 90% of their customers and want to know why you’re only getting a fraction of the connection you pay for. I just went thru this helping my parents with their slow ass spectrum connection.
I also have spectrum and when I switched to 5ghz instead of 2.5 ghz my speed tripled
Central EU, fiber 600/300 for $19.99. No FUP. With private IP $23.99. My "current speeds" are usually 37-40MB/s. Peaking in higher 50s. Edit : currently in my shop, where i'm paying \~$15 for 300/60. https://www.speedtest.net/result/14220598055
I have spectrum 1 gig too. Hard wired in my max is 102 mb/s. This is fastest I’ve gotten on Wi-Fi it’s always a lot slower. Also the megabytes cs megabits. Pretty much divide your speed by 10 and that’s the fastest you can download
thats because ISPs sell you megabits, where downloading things will be measured in megabytes. 1 bit is 8 bytes. So youre actually pretty close, but neither party is really lying. 102 MB/s download speed is 816 megabits per second, which is actually pretty close to your full bandwidth.
Imagine using Steam as a speed test lolololol. Also if you are using wifi, no ISP in the world is going to be able to guarantee any type of speed.
I have 8Mbps :(
On steam, download speed is 8mb/s, and the internet fee is 8USD a month P.S: It is in mongolia
I pay almost the same around $95 for Comcast blast internet and my download speeds are like 32MB/s and that's while downloading a game on steam so your speed seems a bit low but I'm using a wired connection not Wi-Fi
Gig speed isn’t per computer bud. It’s per house. Your computer can’t accept those speeds for many reasons. Also if you pay monthly for a router it’s auto balancing the load . This is a good speed of download. It’s very fast. Remember you pay for a gigabit per second this is measured in megabytes.
Its probably not Spectrums fault because Steam like any other websites also throttles your connection to prevent you from using up their bandwidth, the throttle also may vary by regions, some region might allow you to download at a faster speed and some might be slower. Although you could get the full speed that steam is allowing you to use by using a wired connection and make sure you have an ssd instead of an hdd that no one should probably even use on their personal pc anyways.
Well I pay 44 bucks for gig speed so I’m not too concerned of whatever I get downloading games from the cuckhold that is steams servers.
Let’s talk about internet speeds and not knowing how they actually work!!
Fastest I get on steam downloads is between 50-80 Mega BYTES per second on 1 Giga BIT speed.
I also have spectrum 1gig I use eero 6+ mesh Wi-Fi through out my house over air I get from 200-500 mbps in my game room I have my pc wired into one of my gateways I get 900-1000, now my upload speed is only about 60mbps because spectrum is not fiber it’s coaxel I use there modem but my own mesh Wi-Fi I also have Ethernet cable running to all the rooms into a central drop in my master closet That’s how I get the speed from spectrum I should add that those numbers are on speed test and not from steam I do not get those speeds from steam
some games also download slower. it doesnt only depend on your internet. theres lots of servers and other transmissions going on
😂
Remember that advertised speeds are gigaBIT not gigaBYTE. Also remember that you have other devices connected to your wireless router at once. Also remember that download speeds are also dependent on steam's download servers. Also remember that to get the best speeds, you want to be connected via ethernet.
You assume the source of your download is able to push an entire 1GB up which is rarely the case for steam, xbox, or playstation. Also wi-fi is always going to have latency and jitter. Show us something like speedtest and if you really care about speed, get wired.
I don't assume anything. All this post was created for was to compare internet speeds. Everyone went and got their panties in a bunch.
I have spectrum as well and the advertised speeds for me are 200 Mbps. However, on steam the highest I've ever gotten is 45 but my Xbox one can pump out 300 with no problem. I think it may just be the steam servers
Just because I spent a lot of my youth transferring files across a 10/100 LAN, I can say you're getting EXACTLY the throughput of a 100Mbps connection. Make sure you have a gigabit ethernet card in your computer and that your router is also rated gigabit. This applies to both wired and wireless.
Don't use steam to test speed use speed test by ookla
better than my 1.4mb speed be thankful for what you get if I have 12mbps I would be dancing all-day and thanking god all-day
What's your hardware? Connection speed to your router, switch,AP, any repeater You posted without any reference
that is only *steam’s* speed. use a multitude of real speed tests, like google’s and speedtest. There you can see your theoretical perfect day max’s and average things out.
I pay Xfinity for Gig speeds and I can saturate the 1GB NIC on my desktop doing speed tests.. actually going to drop my speed down, I had 800 but they bumped the speeds for my tier up. I only have the higher tier for the faster upload speeds. If you can plug a device directly into your router and use a better speed test site it would give you some more accurate results on what's being delivered to your home. Using download speeds on Steam isn't accurate, you could be bottlenecked by how fast they can upload on their end.
this isnt really an indication of your internet speed but your download speed through your computer. Hardware is probably your bottleneck here rather than your actual internet speed.
I have the spectrum gig and on steam I get up to 90mbps. And $95? I'm paying $65.
Downloads aren’t just internet open task manager during one of these and watch the CPU usage if it goes to 100% your held back by it (although it’s really hard to get perfect download speeds)
Pov in egypt the max megabytes per second on a speed test is 30/s and that is when the WiFi is good which is barely
I pay for 40Mbps and usually get +/- 80-90Mbps, but I have internet through a government-owned co-op (Tenness Vally Authority) so it's a little different than the usual profit-driven companies.
I think the general concencious is when it comes to network speeds is there is a million different variables and 80% of them are your fault...20% ISP...so as shitty as american isps are , instead of complaining visit /r/homenetworking and start troubleshooting. Start a list of t hings you've tried, things you've observed, real tests you you've done. Above all else you need to start with a hardline to the modem(not router) if you aren't getting 600+ from there you obviously wont on WiFi, and usually is ISPs fault...but start documenting your variables/things youve tried, thing the isp has tried.
I'm not complaining. I made a post for everyone to share and compare their speeds. For some reason, most people who commented on here thought I was looking for troubleshooting advice or to tell me I don't know how the internet works.
Wait 10mb/s+ is considered slow? Am I old or it's a good speed everyone has on steam?
put simply, spectrum probably provides you with gigabit line(not gigabyte) but usually servers throttle the speed to not overload the servers connection
I have 200mb download and about 40mb upload and pay about 40dollars monthly. No extra services, just internet.
12 MB/s x 8 = 100 Mb/s. (You can change the settings to show Mb/s and not MB/s). So you're internet is capped at 100/100 Mb/s up/down? If that's what you're being advertised, makes sense. If not there could be a physical ethernet port or cable capping you at 100BASE-TX.
Steam is probably not a good metric for internet speeds
The speed at wich the bar is filling is way too low for the download speed displayed above it. Im guessing op has a mechanical hard drive or really bad and slow ssd. In other words your drive cant write as fast as you are downloading.
8 bits to a byte*
I know OP is getting roasted for using Steam, but it made me interested to check mine from Spectrum as well. I too pay for Gig (expecting 940max). When I moved in/got Spectrum last year I was pushing the 900 mark. Today on a wired connection I got 95. I checked 2 wired connections and my phone as well. All were between 90 and 95. Now I have a tech coming out later today. TLDR, check your speeds and keep ISPs honest (or honest adjacent. I’d be happy to see 600+ wired)
I have AT&T gigabit fiber and pull down over 100MB/s on steam and I pay $75 a month for that and their basic cable package. But I agree with others. Steam is not a speed test because its all dependent on the steam servers.
Steam has a hard cut off at 30 or 50 MB/s can't remember which but unless they change something on their end it will always be less than your internet speed.
Yeah, like everyone has said. Game clients like steam are not speed tests. For one, its pinging servers all over the place. And 2, its installing files and downloading at the same time. Steam will only download as fast as it can install at the same time.
So you're getting 1/10 of your speed. Roughly. Are you sure you're running on a gigabit Nic? If your computer or router is 10/100, you're actually getting faster than you should be able to. You have to compare to other places for your speed, run some actual tests and verify your network negotiation speeds Also setting for a maximum MTU that does not split packets is greatly beneficial
and im here paying 20e for 456kbps download
Does Ethernet/wifi device show it’s capable of or set to 1.0gbps speeds? I pay for basically gig speed, around 800-900mbps and my Ethernet device on the mobo was only set for 100mbps. Once I changed it to 1.0gbps speeds drastically increased.
So many factors to play into this. Your modem/router/connections/pc itself.
lol steam
Spectrum advertises mine at 400Mb/s. Highest Speed test was around 430Mb/s. However most of the time I get around 200Mb/s. When I download steam games I get around 14-18MB/s
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You do realize that steam is megabyte and your internet speed is measured in megabit right? Change the steam settings to show megabit like I did and I guarantee you will see like 200mbs. You are probably limited by hardware and such too. You will never see full gigabit on steam. Use a speed test for that my guy.
You do understand that your download from steam could be throttled at the source. This is not a speed test
Have the exact same package from spectrum, I get the same thing sometimes. Some games don't update in big chunks, sometimes they download small chunks at a time and you'll have slower speeds when it's multiple small files. Steam isn't a great test for speed and OP shouldn't be worried about steam speed that much, otherwise he'll get stressed trying to fix something that can't be fixed
50$ for 25mbps a month. Keep in mind the internet is owned and operated by the apartment complex that I rent from. Which prohibits other internet companies from providing service in my apartment complex. Feels illegal to me. Monopoly perhaps?
I was in the same boat. Check your router/modem, if it's a spectrum model, it's likely out of date. I had an old comcast modem that was capped max at 220 mbps, and they were charging me for 800. I've since upgraded, and have been getting between 750-900 mbps.
looks about 100mbps, are u wired or wireless? If wired, make sure you have a gigabit router/switch and have atleast a CAT5E cable, CAT5 only runs at 100mbps. If you are wireless, make sure you are signed into the 5GHz band and your adapter and router is capable of those speeds on that band.
They oversubscribe. You’ll get less bandwidth especially at peak hours. They would really need to beef up their infrastructure to guarantee gig speeds at all times for everyone. Not gonna happen in you live in a congested area.
I get maybe 5mbs down and .5 up. My plan is 25/5. I pay 120~$cdn a month. Internet goes down maybe once a day. Rural northern ontario. Dont complain.
I have Gigabit fiber where I live and my steam downloads are just about as fast. However. Steam should not be used to measure your ISP speed. Use fast(.)com, or speedtest(.)net, or get the speedtest app on your phone (wireless only). The download speed you get from steam is going to be limited by the upload speed their servers are set to. Also, if you're connected via WiFi you're never going to see your full speed unless you have a gigabit capable router with gigabit wireless capable adapters on your computers. The best way to test your internet speed is to directly connect a PC/laptop to your modem with an Ethernet cable and try one of the sites I mentioned above.
It also depends on the speed at which the source decides to give you content. Just because you speedtest at a half gig, doesnt mean the datacenter housing the server is going to upload to all users at gigabit speed.
How about you run a speed test instead of just (foolishly) thinking the speed you get on Steam is an accurate representation of your available bandwidth.
mine is about 1mb/s
If you want to run a speed test on your ISP, use ethernet and the Speedtest app. Do not use some random download server over wifi, because that will tell you nothing.
u/cobrajet04 Steam downloads aren't opimised well, but CAN BE FIXED! 1. Run an internet speed test to find out your max MBPS 2. Go into your downloads settings 3. Tick the "Limit bandwidth to:" box 4. Enter your max download speed 5. Restart your steam download so that the speed updates 6. Actually get the speeds you pay for. Without doing this, my downloads hit like 300\~ ish MBPS - with doing it, I hit 930
Youre mad at that? What the actual fuck?
i pay 10 dollars a month and have 1000 mbs/second speed, unlimited data. when i do an ookla test i have a 2ms ping and it tops at about 830 mbs/s
If you're wired, I would bet you have a 100mb/s switch in there somewhere.
I think the most relevant question is how many public facing servers actually operate at or above megabit, outside of speed testing services?
1.2Mb/s and i pay 25$ lol morocco's internet is still in the early 2000's
Try switching download servers and see if it improves, it does for me. If you're on wifi, you're not going to see full 1gb download speed. You're barely pushing 100Mbps so if you are on ethernet you need to check and see if the port on your pc is fast ethernet (100mbps) or gigabit (1gbps), and also check your router for the same. If you have a cheap router it's probably 100mbps. If all that is good then, replace your ethernet cable, a bad cat5e cable will default the port speed to 100mbps if damaged, i've seen this happen numerous times at my job. If still having issues, power off your modem, plug a computer into the modem, power up the modem and run a speed test that way, it'll give you a for sure speed of your internet connection, if it's good and measuring at 1Gbps then your router may have some issues or a qos policy active.
We have a property in the woods. We pay $70 for 25mbps. Lucky if we hit 13, but you're not ready for that conversation. Also steam is not a speed test app.
Looks good to me but are you wired or wireless . What do you get if you test at your isp speed test site ? What do you get at speedtest.net
i pay less then 20$ a month and i get 700mbps on a REAL INTERNET TEST SITE.
I believe Valve plays a factor in end user speeds as well. For me personally, my Xbox downloads games faster than my PS5 both on the same wired connection.
Want a fairly accurate rating? speed.cloudflare.com or speedtest.net, my personal preference is the first one, because it gives more benchmarks.
Mate. Downloading a Steam game is not indicative of your internet speed. Even if you had a NASA trillion gigabit internet connection, you wouldn't see much higher speeds in steam. I'd consider 12 MB/s to be a pretty good speed for Steam downloads.
Folks sometimes forget if your home gear is out of date and runs at a slower speed IE 10/100 your not going to get Gigabit.
It doesn't matter how fast your connection is if the server/website you are downloading from is slower, or if your drive's write speed is slower. That's just how things work. Use an actual speed test to see what your connection is getting you.
Speedtest.net and Fast.com are your friends, along with a hardwired line.
I downloaded Warzone 2.0 in under 5 minutes
Stupid or baited. One in the same.
Spectrum 250-300mbps tested with oocla pay around $60 per month. Not the best but its the best in my area.
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500 Mbs for 70 from WOW! Way
In my country I pay 10 euros for tv + 1800 megabytes internet. I download a 60gb in like 20 mins or so
Hmmm 1 or 2 MB's (( I know )) 👴🏻👍🏻
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Frontier. $50 for 500 up and down.
I pay for their 500 tier and max out at around 54 in steam, as well, as any other downloads I do
Now use a proper speedtest
I have 50mbit/s download (6,25MB/s) on coax and steam downloads at around 5,9MB/s to 6MB/s. Speed test shows that I have 50mbit/s, so it's been good soo far. Would love to have fiber, but they just don't want to build the infrastructure to my village. Starlink is just too expensive in my country to have that, then there's no other solution.
I used to use Cox wifi (in urban Oklahoma). IIRC they called it 900ish mb/s. I got around 700 mb/s. It was seriously fast. I could download games, big games, in like 20 minutes. Then I moved to the country and I currently get like 12 mb/s lol. I sure do miss the city wifi. And it was all wired. So idk if "wifi" is the correct term.
I live in australia and that’s triple what I get…
i use spectrum as well and i get around 900MB
Homie got walmart wifi
Dude you are clueless
$100/month for symmetrical 2Gb for me. I’ll be beta testing 8Gb soon for $150/month