Why do websites throttle me when they realize im downloading 13 MB/s?

[Ikares]

isn't mbps Megabytes Per Second.

I know that bits and bytes are two different things.

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[Foxscotch]

if you're using speedtest.net it's gonna give it to you in bits
but if you're using steam or google chrome or something it's probably gonna tell you in bytes, which are just 8 times as big as a bit

like
1 or 0 are bits
0001011 or 01110001 or 10101010 are bytes
idk if that's how... anything works. but it's a good place to start maybe

[Mr. Hurricane]

uhhhhh
he probably meant 800 kilabits per second though

I'm confused because what I'm looking at shows a clusterforget of conversions and units.

What I mean, if it helps, is that my internet can only download about 800kb of information in a seconds time.

[Foxscotch]

I'm confused because what I'm looking at shows a clusterforget of conversions and units.
What I mean, if it helps, is that my internet can only download about 800kb of information in a seconds time.

if the b is lowercase it's bits. if it's uppercase it's bytes

[Ipquarx]

if the b is lowercase it's bits. if it's uppercase it's bytes

And the difference is huge. 1 byte is 8 bits. So if you have a 30megabit per second connection, you divide that by 8 to get megabytes.

Megabits for some reason is used in speedtest.net, which further confuses things.

[Mr. Hurricane]

if the b is lowercase it's bits. if it's uppercase it's bytes

I'm judging this by what steam is telling me so I wouldn't be surprised if the measure is wrong because steam might have decidied to stylize its download screen with uppercase letters.

[Ipquarx]

I'm judging this by what steam is telling me so I wouldn't be surprised if the measure is wrong because steam might have decidied to stylize its download screen with uppercase letters.

Steam uses mega/kilobytes, so yeah

[Foxscotch]

Megabits for some reason is used in speedtest.net, which further confuses things.

it's used there because that's what ISPs promise speeds in. which is shady imo but whatever

I'm judging this by what steam is telling me so I wouldn't be surprised if the measure is wrong because steam might have decidied to stylize its download screen with uppercase letters.

nah. valve is a professional company. something like that would take priority over style