Submitted 1 week ago by bhutanesegirl2003@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
Mb means megabits, kind of like 1 million bits. MB means megabytes, so 1 million bytes, whis is not quite the same, as one byte is 8 bits.
The numbers seem quite okay actually, which is surprising, since most of the time torrent download speed is also limited by peer upload, or maybe I just remember the old times when that was an issue, it’s been a moment for me.
those are different b. 🙃 One is megabits per second and other is megabytes per second.
kinda funny that OP got the letter cases right but didn’t think there was actually a difference
Same with every average ISP customer. 1GB/s down and 1Gb/s up sounds like the same thing. ISPs expect customers to know the difference the same way Tesla pretends everyone knows airplane autopilot is just a speed and vector system
When I download something using torrent though, the speed is shown as 10 MB/s
You forgot the i, qBittorrent displays speeds in MiB/s not MB/s.
Mb/s = Megabit per second
MB/s = Megabyte per second
MiB/s = Mebibyte per second
Anyway 10 MiB/s is ~ 83 Mb/s so you’re fine.
Storage is base 2. Anything besides that it marketing.
I believe you meant that you have an internet speed of 81 MegaBytes vs 81 Megabits.
From back in the day, there was a settings section for limiting your download/upload speeds, to make sure you didn’t max out your data cap/plan. I would suggest looking into that to make sure you’re not self-capping your DLs.
Also check to make sure that your ISP isn’t throttling your internet connection after you hit a certain amount of data. Look at the contract you have with them.
But like others have said, it could be a list of other reasons.
I believe you meant that you have an internet speed of 81 MegaBytes vs 81 Megabits.
OP is confused but I’m pretty sure he’s right about that part. Most (all?) ISPs advertise service in Megabit / Gigabit speeds. Definitely here in the U.S. not sure if other countries do that differently.
Also most speedtest sites measure in Megabit / Gigabit. e.g. www.speedtest.net is a popular one and by default it measures bandwidth speeds in Megabit / Gigabit.
Could be any number of reasons. The simplest is that they can’t upload the file to you that fast.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
There are 8 bits in a byte.
10 megabytes (MB) is 80 megabits (Mb).
Makes sense.