The bandwidth of a network card would generally outclass your internet connection by an offer of magnitude.
Gigabits per second network cards have been standard for at least a decade.
And then there’s your wifi too, if applicable, but even that is much faster than your general internet connection.
cabbage@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I feel like I can download files to my newest laptop faster than I can move them around locally on my older ones. But maybe I'm just getting old, and my reference points are dates. Or maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about, that's also likely.
In either case, thanks for the explanation!
BangersAndMash@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is it possible the hard drive is failing in the old one? I don’t know what the operating system would do if download speed surpassed write speed, but once it couldn’t hold it in ram any longer waiting to write I guess it would have to throttle it.