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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First off: Bits vs bytes.
Data rates are in multiples of bits per second: bps (minuscule b)
Volumes are in multiples of bytes: B (capital B)
1 byte = 8 bits.
60 GB would take 8 minutes in a gigabit (per second) connection.
Then you should take into account that in order to do that, the whole chain should support that speed: the server (reading for the disk and the network), all the intermediary routers and your computer (writing to disk). If it cannot
After that, there are the network protocols. Downloading a file usually means TCP. TCP controls how much data can be “in transit” by means of small messages that tell the sending side that a part of the data was well received. If some information is lost, the rate at which the data is sent changes .Think of it as a phone call where you can’t properly understand the other person and you ask them to repeat the last sentence.
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