Why do video game downloads not directly relate to the download speed shown?

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I’m doing a game download at the moment and my speed says 50mbps, however the actual download is going up by roughly 1mbps, just wondered how it actually works.

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Internet speed is measured in bites per second. So, since 1byte is 8 bits. You get around 6.25MBps. that’s again divided into upload and download speeds. Then further divided by the number of devices connected to your network. You do the math

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