Question Bad download speed on browsers, but not on Steam?

[tomitomi]

Hello,
I have internet speed of a 100Mbps and when I download something from Steam, it downloads it with normal speed (about 11-12MBps), but in all browsers when I put something to download speed is capped to 2MBps or 2.6MBps, it doesn't go above. I first thought that it was because of their servers but then I connected same ethernet cable on my laptop and it was downloading the same file at a normal speed(11-12MBps). It happens on every browser. I scanned pc with malwarebytes and few other programs but nothing was found. I reinstalled lan drivers but it didn't help. Speedtest.net is showing 100Mbps. Any help?

 

[SgtScream]

Megabits and Megabytes are two different ways to determine speed. There are 8 bits to a byte. Your internet service speed is measured in bits and steam measures speed in bytes.
12MBps (MegaBYTES) x 8bits = 96Mbps (MegaBITS).

 

[tomitomi]

Yes, I understand that, but why is my download speed 2MBps (16Mbps) then? It should be 12MBps when downloading through browsers.

 

[SgtScream]

I missed that part. Is throttling configured in the browser?
https://www.techjunkie.com/limit-download-speed-chrome/

 

[tomitomi]

Nothing is configured there, I tried to add profile now but it's not helping