Web Browser Speed slower than actualy download speed?

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Lt_Apex

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Okay so I have pretty decent internet. When i update games and download games on steam I get around 5-7MB/s for the download. When ever there is a big update of lets say a gig or more for a game I dont mind because it'll only take me 5-10 minutes to download it. But when it comes to my internet browser downloading files it is significantly slower. It will usually download files at the normal speed that I get but it also varies. It seems like now, most of the files I download for mods seem to take forever. I'm downloading a file that is a gig and it is taking an hour for it to download which in reality, it should only take around 5 minutes.

I have a G10AC Asus with its own wireless connection. Comcast as my ISP and their modem/router box lol.
 
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This is because there is a difference in the overhead on the downloads between a download client and when your browser downloads a file. game clients function the same way Peer to Peer download clients and Torrent Clients such as Bittorrent function which has significantly much less overhead than a direct download through your browser does.
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This is because there is a difference in the overhead on the downloads between a download client and when your browser downloads a file. game clients function the same way Peer to Peer download clients and Torrent Clients such as Bittorrent function which has significantly much less overhead than a direct download through your browser does.
 
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Yeah, just because you have a good connection speed doesn't mean the server on the other end does. For example, if you get 5-7 MB/sec on downloading files, that works out to a connection of 40-50+ Mbps. If the end-server, on the other hand, only has throughput of 8-10Mbps (20% of your connection speed), you're going to see your download speed limited (about 20%, or 1-1.4 MB/sec).

Also, depending how the server's hosting is set up, some sites start getting throttled once they hit a monthly bandwidth cap, or in some cases get shut down completely. Used to happen a lot on some of the old Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire sites, when people hosted large ZIP or EXE files; too many people downloading files in a month would block the entire site (including the index page) from being displayed.
 
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