I have a 500 mbps on speedtest but on steam it ranges from 1 mb s to 69-70 mb/s 0eak...

[Iulian Roman]

I have a 500 mbps on speedtest but on steam it ranges from 1 mb s to 69-70 mb/s 0eak and the average is 20-30 mb.s

Is a TP link cat5e cable gonna help? If not im thinking about getting a gigabit tp link router that also has wireless (i hope im able to connect the optic fiber to it).

Thoughts?

Yes i know bad england pls dont spank me

 

[Mahesh Samp]

its probably 500mega bits persecond. Multiply with 0.125 and you'll get 62megabytes persecond. So you are getting what you paid.

 

[Amin Nausin]

steam reads in megabytes

 

[Amin Nausin]

which is MB, your internet comes in megabits, which is mb

 

[Topher Layson]

divide it by 8

 

[Dumitru Alexandru]

It might not be your cables, here's why:
1. Speedtest and other sites/apps write in RAM, which is super fast
2. Steam downloads in RAM, then transfers to HDD/SSD. Once the RAM is full, there will be a downtime (speed reduction or complete pause) until it writes to your SSD/HDD
If you have an SSD installed, try downloading something to that location and check if this problem still happens. If it doesn't, buy a faster HDD, switch to SSD or deal with it, we can't have superfast download speeds with large files for cheap