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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Your connection is 1000 megaBITS per second, 125 megaBYTES per second. So that 60gb file just went from 1 min to 8 mins right there.
Then there’s the fact that they might not have a 1000mb/s connection themselves but that part is quiet rare if your downloading from anywhere reputable so let’s ignore that and move on to…
Data read/write times. Your pc needs a none zero amount of time to actually write the files to your HDD, and no 60gb download is a single file, in fact in the case of games (which I’m assuming you were talking about in your example) they are hundreds of thousands of files, each taking a faction of a second to write, adding up to several minutes.
If you ever did get one singular 60gb file, you’d likely download it in near enough 8 minutes. The extra time however is your drives I/o speed.
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