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This may or may not belong in this thread, but i had a question about Internet speeds.
I currently have 40 Down, 5 Up internet speeds. My roommate and i are constantly running into lag issues, mostly videos continuing to buffer, if we are trying to both watch movies/playgames / watch streams.
Also, i'm probably wrong, but since we have 5 up, i have rarely ever seen my internet speed (while installing games from Steam) to go above 5.0 mb/s. Does this mean if i upgrade my internet to 20 down 20 up (only upgrade available that would increase my upload) would it increase my installation of games, watching of streams and such, and should that make Steam go up to a potential 20 mb/s, or does upload have nothing to do with this and its completely download ?

Edit : http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4742724458
http://i.imgur.com/FP5fJuN.jpg

Any help on the issue would be great. Thank you for your time.
 
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Gam3r01
Up has nothing to do with downloading games or watching videos as you are not uploading anything.
Your down is 40Mbps from what it sounds, while steam uses MB/s (bit vs byte) take Mb, and divide it by 8 to get MB.
That being said, it sounds more like bandwidth issue, even if your have a fast enough DL rate, it may have to split it across multiple sources. The easiest solution is to lower the video quality as you both use it.
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Up has nothing to do with downloading games or watching videos as you are not uploading anything.
Your down is 40Mbps from what it sounds, while steam uses MB/s (bit vs byte) take Mb, and divide it by 8 to get MB.
That being said, it sounds more like bandwidth issue, even if your have a fast enough DL rate, it may have to split it across multiple sources. The easiest solution is to lower the video quality as you both use it.
 
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No, 40Down/5Up means that you have 40Mbps download bandwidth which is what you want when you and your roommate are downloading movies/games whatever. 5Up is what you use to SEND email, attachments, click on web pages. I would recommend upgrading your speed to 50/75/100Mbps Down and whatever Up. Its common that you use Down more than Up.
 
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No, that wouldn't work as upload speed is when you upload files to the internet (your youtube channel video uploads etc) when you are installing games from Steam it is downloading therefore only using your download speed. Also internet speed is measured in Megabits not megabytes which is 8megabits to 1 megabyte approximately. So your speed will be about 5 megabytes a second which isn't bad, however when multiple people are connected or you are being throttled by your ISP that is when you will lag/buffer due to loss of speed.
 
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Your ISP is giving you megabits, Steam is showing you megabytes.
8 bits to the byte.
40 megabits (ISP) = 5 megabytes (Steam).

You need to change nothing.
 
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Thanks guys. It turned out that the CSR i spoke to told me i'd be getting 20/20 when i "upgraded" but i'd actually be getting 40down/20up. So my up will still increase which will be nice for streaming. I didn't know about the DL speed being divided by 8. Thanks everyone.
 
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A steam download can saturate your download speed and make things slow. Also make sure you are not mistaking saturated download speeds with a bad stream host. Your internet may be fine, but if you are trying to download/stream from some random website, they might not be serving you the content fast enough to prevent buffering.
Test with youtube or some other well known site.
 
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