Indeed, at ten gigabytespersecond in both downloading and uploading, Thunderbolt is approximately twenty times faster then USB 2.0, and twelve times faster than FireWire 800.
More than 5, 000 computers were set up to operate at high speed connections of 20 Gigabytespersecond (average Mexican household connection speed is between 3 and 20 MB).
The chip has a bandwidth of 300 gigabytespersecond, which could conceivably process the download of the entire iTunes music catalog -- more than 5 million songs -- in about a minute.