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Lots of good replies, but I will add two things.

The first is that speed tests are bogus. Your computer/ISP knows your running a speed test and will send you the highest speed possible. The result from the test is the speed in that instant rather than a general internet speed.

The second issue is that you can have 500Mb/s download, but the data still needs to be uploaded from a server. Your download speed could be 5Gb/s but if the server is uploading at 15Mb/s then you will be downloading at 15Mb/s.

Hope this helps.
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there is also a difference between megabytes and megabits. Your isp is rate by megabits most likely. 500mbps or whatever. But most downloads show as MBps which is megaBYTES. ..500 megabits is 50 megabytes.
So if youre getting 15Mbps youre actually getting 150mbps which could be just the server speed. or what the download cap is.

I guess it actually 8mbs for every 1 MBps sorry


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Legion wrote there is also a difference between megabytes and megabits. Your isp is rate by megabits most likely. 500mbps or whatever. But most downloads show as MBps which is megaBYTES. ..500 megabits is 50 megabytes.
So if youre getting 15Mbps youre actually getting 150mbps which could be just the server speed. or what the download cap is.
This right here most dont know
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Team,

There are eight bits in one byte, not ten. Bits are a lowercase "b" and bytes are a capital "B" in abbreviations like MBps and Mbps. 8 Mbps = 1 MBps.

We use bits to describe network transfer speed because one bit is transferred at a time. We're describing the media speed, not how fast we can transfer a file through it.
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