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 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.