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Nighthawk R7000P is capping my Steam download speeds and I don't know why
I get about 600Mbps bandwidth from my ISP and when connected directly to my modem, I see speeds up to 74Mbps.
When I'm connected directly to my Nighthawk R7000P, I still see bandwidth speeds around...
ayush0963 wrote:
I get about 600Mbps bandwidth from my ISP and when connected directly to my modem, I see speeds up to 74Mbps.
When I'm connected directly to my Nighthawk R7000P, I still see bandwidth speeds around 600Mbps but for some reason Steam downloads will not exceed 20Mbps.
I have searched tirelessly online for a solution but have found none. Can someone please help?
https://www.reddit.com/r/NETGEAR/comments/13bmpff/nighthawk_r7000p_is_capping_my_steam_download
You are comparing two different units of measure. From your ISP you are indicating 600 Mbps (megabit per second). For your other numbers you are indicating MB/s (megabyte per second).
There are 8 bits in a byte. So, 600 Mbps compares reasonably well to 74 MB/s or 592 Mbps.
Check the original message. It was all mbps. No mention of Mbps.
michaelkenward wrote:Check the original message. It was all mbps. No mention of Mbps.
There is a difference between mbps and mb/s. The later is usually indicative of megabyte and the former megabit. See attached.
Kitsap wrote:
There is a difference between mbps and mb/s. The later is usually indicative of megabyte and the former megabit. See attached.
Not really. The image is hopelessly confusing.
Read it again. It makes no claims about
"/" versus "per"
They are identical. As in miles per hour or miles/hour.
That choice depends on the "style" of the publication involved. In its documentation,
Netgear usually uses Mbps.
In the scientific world that I hang around the difference is between:
Mbps and MBps
Or
Mb/s and MB/s
That is also what your image shows.
In all cases, mbps is hopelessly wrong in this context. It should be M all round.
m = micro (ie microwatt)
M = Mega (ie megawatt)
The bit that matters is the b versus B.
ayush0963 used b throughout.
Don't take my word for it:
Megabits vs. Megabytes: (Mbps vs. MBps) | HighSpeedInternet.com
There are many more where that came from.
