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

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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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1.  You are confusing big B with little b.
B as in 60GB stands for byte, b in 1000mbps stands for bit.  There are 8 bits to the byte so your peak download time would still be 8 minutes.

2.  The server sending you your data may not be sending it as fast as you can download it.

3.  There are IO (input/output) inefficiencies on your computers end.  The the network card or mobo needs to be able to receive that much data , the processor then needs to process it and decide where it goes, the your disk needs to write it.  

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