It’s still super fast, but a 60gb download should be in the ball park of 1min but it frequently would take 10-15min
Edit: I have symmetrical 1GB fiber connection with a router specced for WiFi 7. I did mess up the abbreviation for megabytes, my bad y’all.
Edit 2: I may have messed it up again. IM 5 YALL
Edit 3: bit vs byte 🥵🌶️
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You cannot receive data faster than what is sent to you. Not all servers can send data as fast as you can receive it.
Internet speeds are measured in megabits per second. Download speeds and file sizes are usually measured in megabytes. A bit is 8 times smaller than a byte.
So there are two parts to this. One is your connection speed is in 1000 megabits per second, which is only 125 megabytes per second. Secondly, the server that is delivering the files to you may not be sending at your max speed.
There is some overhead in sending the file so it will take some more than the actual file size.
More importantly though, network speeds are in megabits. Not megabytes like file size.
So network speeds are 8 times slower than you might think, since one byte is typically 8 bits.
1 Gb is not the same as 1GB… check your measurements…
You are downloading something that is 60GB at 1Gb speed… so it will take around 8min in a perfect world.
The capitalization of letters is important for these units:
* b = bits (either a 0 or a 1)
* B = Bytes (a set of 8 bits)
Data transfer speeds are almost always written as b/s (**bits** per seconds), while file sizes are almost always written as B (**Bytes**).
A 1000 Mb/s (mega**bits** per second) download speed would be equivalent to 125 MB/s (mega**bytes** per second). A 60 GB (giga**byte**) file should therefore take about 8 minutes in ideal conditions. Real speeds will tend to be a bit lower depending on your wifi signal or other factors.
The speed is usually expressed in megabits, which is about 8 times less. A given file transfer will only as fast as the slowest link allows. The given speed is only for the last line between you and the ISP. There could be a congestion later on the signal path. It is possible that the server itself has too many simultaneous users to allow each of them high speed. With today’s speeds we can no longer assume that the server that much faster.
Because of latency or distance in time, the transfer rate is limited by buffering. The transfer involves acknowledgements. The sender will only dispatch a certain amount of data before getting confirmation that it was received. Data loss causes a reduction of speed. This is how it is automatically adjusted to fill the capacity of a line. Some loss always happens and is corrected by waiting and resending it.
In addition to the standard answer of the difference between bytes and bits, remember that the place you download something from is literally just another computer hooked up to the internet. Not all websites have 1000 Gbps available for each user who wants to download something.
First off: Bits vs bytes.
Data rates are in multiples of bits per second: bps (minuscule b)
Volumes are in multiples of bytes: B (capital B)
1 byte = 8 bits.
60 GB would take 8 minutes in a gigabit (per second) connection.
Then you should take into account that in order to do that, the whole chain should support that speed: the server (reading for the disk and the network), all the intermediary routers and your computer (writing to disk). If it cannot
After that, there are the network protocols. Downloading a file usually means TCP. TCP controls how much data can be “in transit” by means of small messages that tell the sending side that a part of the data was well received. If some information is lost, the rate at which the data is sent changes .Think of it as a phone call where you can’t properly understand the other person and you ask them to repeat the last sentence.
You can, but you’ll hit that limit easier if you’re downloading many things at once. For a single download you are limited by the upload speed of that server.
Downloading torrents is theoretically a much faster way to download a single file than a regular download, because you can connect to multiple seeders at the same time.
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