You are continuously and forever downloading an infinite amount of data from a video server onto your home computer. Your home has a 10 Gbps Internet connection. However, your average throughput is 1 Gbps (so, significantly smaller than what you might expect). What might be the reason?
(Many answers may apply.)

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You are continuously and forever downloading an infinite amount of data from a video server onto your home computer. Your home has a 10 Gbps Internet connection. However, your average throughput is 1 Gbps (so, significantly smaller than what you might expect). What might be the reason?

(Many answers may apply.)

Accepted Answer

Your traffic crosses a link that has transmission rate 1 Gbps.

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Your traffic crosses one or more links with significant propagation delay.

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Your traffic crosses one or more packet switches that are introducing queuing delay.

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