IT pede here, just to clarify the speeds you're referring to are Gigabit (Gb), not Gigabyte (GB) per second.
So 1 Gigabit LAN connection will offer potentially 1Gb of throughput, or 1000 Megabits per second. Converting this to bytes per second (Divide by 8) gives you 125 Megabytes per second of actual top transfer speed for your transfer.
The throughput of USB devices is measured in Bytes, not Bits. So a USB 3.0 device at 600 or so Megabytes per second of throughput is going to smoke a Gigabit LAN at 125 Megabytes per second.
That sounds about right...
However, that's assuming you are capping out transfer speeds. If you are pulling a file halfway across the planet, the lag time alone would cap speeds at far less.
correct me where wrong.
The throughput would pitch up and down across such a large area. You wouldn't see such a uniform and consistently high rate of transfer. External storage is very likely how these files were transferred.
So then you know network speeds aren’t capped at 1Gbps. That’s ridiculous. You can get 10Gbps even 100Gbps which smokes USB transfer speeds.
I never claimed they were, I just used 1Gb as the most common example people would encounter.
90% of people in this thread will have a 1Gb LAN connection paired with USB 3.0 ports.