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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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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.