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

You are confusing Gigabits and Gigabytes.

60 GB is 60 Gigabytes.

There are 8 bits in a byte. 1000 mb/s translates to 125 MB/s.

60 GB divided by 125 MB/s comes out to 480 seconds, as it takes 8 seconds to download 1 GB.

480 seconds is 8 minutes.