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

There is some overhead in sending the file so it will take some more than the actual file size.

More importantly though, network speeds are in megabits.  Not megabytes like file size.

So network speeds are 8 times slower than you might think, since one byte is typically 8 bits.