• LeFantome@programming.dev
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    4 hours ago

    I have 3 Gbps home Internet ( up and down ). I get over 300 Megabytes per second.

    Can they not torrent a bunch of that bandwidth?

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      4 hours ago

      You’re completely missing what he’s saying, and how that number is calculated. It’s an average connection speed over time and you’re anecdotally saying your internet is superior because you have a higher connection speed, which isn’t really true at all.

      You have residential internet which is able to provide 3Gbps intermittently. You may even be able to sustain those speeds for several days at a time. But servers maintain those connections for months and years at a time…

      800TB/mo is 2.469 Gb/s sustained for 30 days. They may be on a 10Gb/s connection, but that doesn’t mean they have enough demand to saturate it 100% of the time.