If we divide the speed of your connection (measured in megabits) by 8, we arrive at something resembling the download speed you’re seeing in your speed tests: 40 megabits divided by 8 becomes 5 megabytes.
So when you see that download chugging along at 5MB/s, that means megabytes per second–as opposed to your 40Mb/s, or megabits per second, internet package.
But your operating system and all the apps on it (web browsers, download helpers, torrent clients, etc.) all measure data in mega bytes, not megabits. You see, you have a broadband connection that is capable of 40 megabits per second (under ideal conditions, 40,000,000 bits come down the line). This difference is where, on the surface, it all seems to fall apart. Right-click on your Taskbar and select Task Manager. The easiest method is to use your Taskbar. Because there are clear ways to reduce your data usage.
RELATED: Why You Probably Aren't Getting the Internet Speeds You're Paying For (and How to Tell) As for how to deal with a complete Steam Download Slow, as follows: 1. limit your upload speed to about half of the maximum speed in the launcher settings (wrench icon in the top right corner of the launcher). Its world of tanks which has super slow, as blackoutmegatron said it is on the Gaijins end. In other words, the byte system that your operating system uses is a bunch of bits strung together in groups of eight. War Thunder has the slowest downloads of any game Ive played in 20 years. Another term, used by computer scientists to avoid confusion over the different size byte structures out there in the world, is octet. A byte, however, is a unit of digital information that (in many operating systems, including Windows) is eight bits long. A bit, as we’ve established, is the tiniest unit of measurement in the digital kingdom, that primordial 1 or 0. Computer storage is not measured in bits, it’s measured in bytes. Now, here’s where things get confusing for the average non-geeky-Joe. Originally, networks were so slow that their speed was measured in just bits, but as network speeds increased, we started measuring internet speed in kilobits per second (remember 56k modems? That meant 56 kilobits per second), and now, megabits per second. The speed of a network is denoted using a bit-per-second notation. RELATED: How to Find the Fastest ISP in Your Area Bit, in fact, is a contraction of the the longer phrase “Binary Digit”. Bits are most commonly represented in the binary system, via 0 and 1. A bit is the smallest and most basic unit of measurement in computing and digital communications. Data transfer over networks has always been measured in bits. Let’s start by delving back into the history of computer networks.