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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Your connection is 1000 megaBITS per second, 125 megaBYTES per second. So that 60gb file just went from 1 min to 8 mins right there.
Then there’s the fact that they might not have a 1000mb/s connection themselves but that part is quiet rare if your downloading from anywhere reputable so let’s ignore that and move on to…
Data read/write times. Your pc needs a none zero amount of time to actually write the files to your HDD, and no 60gb download is a single file, in fact in the case of games (which I’m assuming you were talking about in your example) they are hundreds of thousands of files, each taking a faction of a second to write, adding up to several minutes.
If you ever did get one singular 60gb file, you’d likely download it in near enough 8 minutes. The extra time however is your drives I/o speed.
You don’t have 1000mb/s. You have 1000 mbps.
Internet speed is measured in megaBITS per second. Download speed is measured in megaBYTES per second.
8 bits = 1 byte
I’ve got quite a high speed once (around 90MB/sec), downloading updates from Microsoft. To actually max out the connection I just need more devices making requests from different sites. There’s multiple PCs, macs, phones, and streamers in the house.
All of these other answer are correct, but I’d like to add a bit.
Even in a perfect scenario, due to the overhead of TCP/IP, you will only get around 940Mb/s.
Also Google will [do this math](https://www.google.com/search?q=60+gigabytes+%2F+1Gb%2Fs+in+minutes) for you.
One *byte* is made up of 8 *bits.* So, your 1000 mega *bit* internet speed equates to a download speed of 125 mega *bytes* per second.
Moreover, this is simply your connection speed to your ISP. Whatever server you’re connecting to may not be able to upload 1000mbits to you, so your maximum download speed will be whatever they can handle.
Not to mention the quality of the connection at any point between you and the server.
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