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I am with the British ISP Plusnet

I ran the Ofcom speed test which confirmed my speeds are as advertised:

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However, when I download in Steam I only get the following (even when unchecking limits on download speeds)

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I thought it might be the transfer speed to my harddrive so I tried on my SSD and it is no quicker. What's going on? Am I being throttled?

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You're confusing megabits and megabytes

Your line is 37 megabits/s Mbps
Your measured download is 4.6 megabytes/s MBps

37mbps = 4.625MBps so you are getting what you pay for.

See https://www.gbmb.org/mbps-to-mbs

Tetsujin
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