why does having 1000mb/s of download speeds doesn’t translate to actually downloading things at 1gb a second

Question

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 🥵🌶️

In: Technology

Answer 1

All of these other answer are correct, but I’d like to add a bit.

Even in a perfect scenario, due to the overhead of TCP/IP, you will only get around 940Mb/s.

Also Google will [do this math](https://www.google.com/search?q=60+gigabytes+%2F+1Gb%2Fs+in+minutes) for you.