router

[mathew123]

hi  

currently have the bt home hub 2. appears to be slow. we are supposed to have 70mbs speeds. have done a speed test and bt are saying its fine from the exchange to the router.  Would changing the router make the downloads speeds faster as I try and download games via steam and max downloads speed is 10mbps.

it all confuses me :S

[imjolly]

BT quoted speeds are connecting speed to your hub not download speeds. 

Are the steam download speed in bits or Bytes remembering there are 8 bits in a Byte  so sped of about 70 Mbits will give download about 8MBytes

Are you using ethernet or wife remembering WiFi suffers from interference which will reduce download speed

[gg30340]

Are you sure you are not getting MBps and Mbps mixed up.

One thing that often gives people confusion is the difference between a (MB) Megabyte (used for file size) and a (Mb) Megabit (used for download speeds). People often assume that a download speed of 1 Megabit per second (1 Mbps) will allow them to download a 1 Megabyte file in one second. This is not the case, a Megabit is 1/8 as big as a Megabyte, meaning that to download a 1MB file in 1 second you would need a connection of 8Mbps.

This would mean if you were mixing them up you would be downloading a 10MB file at approx 80Mbps which would be in line with your estimated speeds.