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 🥵🌶️

In: Technology

Answer 1

The capitalization of letters is important for these units:

* b = bits (either a 0 or a 1)
* B = Bytes (a set of 8 bits)

Data transfer speeds are almost always written as b/s (**bits** per seconds), while file sizes are almost always written as B (**Bytes**).

A 1000 Mb/s (mega**bits** per second) download speed would be equivalent to 125 MB/s (mega**bytes** per second). A 60 GB (giga**byte**) file should therefore take about 8 minutes in ideal conditions. Real speeds will tend to be a bit lower depending on your wifi signal or other factors.