Why is it downloading so slow?

Post date: 2025-02-18 12:06:44

Downloading 50gb from cloud to external drive. WHY IS IT SO SLOW

Hi! I'm only halfway through a 50gb download from the cloud to an external drive. And it's been 3 hours.

Specs:

-Downloading 50GB zip from Apple data directly to brand new Samsung T7 Shield 1TB SSD drive, via Chrome browser - Calculations say this should only take about 15 minutes. I'm closing in on almost 4 hours now.
-Speed test says I'm at 450mbps, over wifi I'M NOT INTERESTED IN DIRECTLY CONNECTING TO MODEM FOR REASONS
-Running Ventura on Macbook M1 Pro 2021
-Laptop browser is running slow if I try to use it to do anything at all, so not doing that.
-Posting this from my phone over mobile connection (not network wifi to save as much bandwidth as possible). When phone was still on local network, I wasn't haven't speed issues on it.
-No other devices are using network right now

What gives?

I have 6 more 50GB chunks to download after this and that this rate it will take me all week. I work as a producer and have had to download up to 10GB videos over my network before and it's never been a problem, I've always gotten them in seconds or minutes.

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