Why Im getting more bandwidth when my bandwitdth is capped at 50 mbps

[Abdullah_Saeed]

Whenever I stream movies from google drive in android I get bandwidth upto 250 mbps when my connection is capped at 50mbps. Hows that possible. you can see the screenshot, at top, the bandwidth rate is shown, it is totally legit but how that possible what is the science behind it. and this only occur when I stream from google drive on mxplayer or vlc player.

[Harmeet]

It’s bits not bytes

[Darksaviour]

Some isp’s (Internet Service Provider) use caching servers. It is used by isp’s to save global bandwidth by caching popular sites/ services like google (gdrive, youtube), netflix, and even p2p (torrents).
Also, you try checking your net speed on speedtest.net and then on fast.com (by netflix). If your isp supports caching netflix then you will probably get much higher speed on fast.com xD

[RoohNooh]

It is called Google peering! Check the below link.

[SOLVED] Google peering

The reason behind fast youtube videos is that most of the ISP now a days have connectivity to google’s network because of which when a user uses any google application he does not consumes the internet bandwidth instead goes on directly to google’s network i.e. google peering. & Behind fast torrent downloads, the service provider has torrent caching server because of which a user again does not uses the internet bandwidth but uses the btcache server that is the caching server installed in the…

[Abdullah_Saeed]

its Bytes.

[Harmeet]

Unusually high streaming speeds is due to app caching/ pre-downloading media before streaming.
There is no way ISP would allow speed more than allotted bandwidth.

[PrinXess_Kat69]

but still it depends on current bandwidth, using speed test & showing in that is another reason