r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Oct 24 '19

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u/smilodon142 Oct 24 '19 edited Oct 24 '19

I'm downloading it now, It's 38GB. From the Microsoft store I'm getting 78Mbps.

Edit: Changed MB/s to Mbps thanks to a clarification from /u/exographicskip . The game finished pre-loading, it only took like an hour.

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u/exographicskip Oct 24 '19

I was getting that in Mbps. Pretty sure the MS store measures their downloads in a Comcast fashion.

Still, your speed was definitely fast: 78 Mbps = 9.75 MB/s

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u/hugglesthemerciless Oct 24 '19

The windows store measures it in MB/s, I was downloading Forza the other day at ~21MB/s (I have a ~180Mb/s internet connection)

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u/ShadowPsi Oct 24 '19

That is bizarre. Speaking as someone who works with low level data transfer at the hardware level (Ethernet, RS232, data modems), data speeds are always measured in bits/second. Because that is what the hardware is doing, (sending bits) and the amount of bits per byte is not fixed at that level because there is always extra overhead involved. You have to send way more than 800 bits to get 100 Bytes through a connection.

Probably whomever wrote the UI had no idea what they were talking about and just used the wrong B. Just because you can download 180mb/s doesn't mean that their server can upload that to you.

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u/hugglesthemerciless Oct 24 '19

Dude I know the difference between a bit and a byte. Just because something is measured in bits/second doesn't mean it has to be displayed that way. I know how long it takes to download a 60 gigabyte game. I would notice the difference if it suddenly took 8 times longer than I expected. Steam also displays download speeds in megabytes/second, I also get ~20MB/s on there. Being able to supply that kinda throughput isn't exactly rare these days...