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It the page could download in one burst without any breaks the calculation would be correct. However those 14 requests aren't all run at once and end up triggering sequentially. It goes something like GET youtube.com, process reply, find other resources needed GET youtube.com's CSS, etc. etc.

Combined with link delays, dropped packets, long round trip times and the like you get a much slower nominal bandwidth.



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