With 1 Gbps, most ISPs and router manufacturers mean 1000 Megabits per second. And this site also shows the speed in bits per second. So, the speed shouldn't really be more than 1000 Mbps or 1 Gbps because their hardware isn't capable of that, even if their ISP is providing some extra speed (which sometimes they do, especially with servers like Netflix).

This is the typical wrong speed reported by Fast.com and that's why people shouldn't use it to measure how fast their connection is, unless they are trying to verify if their connection sucks with Netflix servers and/or video streaming.

I think they’re getting at the difference between using powers of 10 vs powers of 2.

So 1 kb (kilobyte) = 10^3 = 1,000 bytes, but since computers tend to use powers of 2, sometimes they might use 1 kb (kibibyte) = 2^10 = 1024 bytes

Strictly speaking, kilo always means 10^3, and kibi always means 2^10 so they’re not equal. But in common parlance, the difference barely matters so it is common to use kilo- even when kibi- is strictly correct.

The same holds true for bigger prefixes like giga (10^9) and gibi (2^30).

So I think that guy was getting at those differences even though the number he said makes no sense even if you account for the giga/gibi difference. So maybe I wrote all this for no reason lol

Thankyou for being able to do math. Seriously.

Idk why that comment is getting upvoted so much.

Fast.com uses a crude way to determine speed. It’s obviously some flawed math formula since I’ve gotten some wild speeds before (like over 6-7Gbps) on a 2Gbps connection. Whatever it is is obviously inaccurate.