Speed test,steam,app store says 50+mbps, but it is only 10mbps at most

[thomaslai12345]

I have a wireless adaptor t9uh and steam, microsoft store and speed test all say the speed is 50+ mbps but when i look at the download it is actually only downloading 0.01 gb(10mbps) per second why is this? I havent downloaded the wireless adaptor driver is that the reason. My wifi is linkysy ea7500 from another computer i get the same 50mpbs+ speed

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

When you run a speed test it's results are shown as bandwidth, which is expressed as megabits/sec.

However, when you download files it is shown as megabytes/sec

A megabyte equals 8 megabits, so with a bandwidth of 50 mbps, actual download speed will be around 6 Mbps (ie 50 divided by 8).