Different download sizes

Made a backup of a database that's around 1 GB in size and I tried downloading it through an ftp client. On the ftp client, it says 1.3 GB but when I finish download it to my Windows machine, it says 1.26 GB.

Does the ftp client drop and miss completing the download or is everything all good?

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Web browsers also fail at completing database backup downloads because they often get stuck at 100% but never gets completed. I've heard web browsers aren't recommended for downloading large files anyway and it's preferred to use ftp clients or download managers.

 

This is what the FTP client has recorded :

Code (Text):

db_name_here.sql - xxxxxxxxxxxxx bytes transferred in 9 minutes, 557 seconds  
TYPE I  

No response from server, disconnecting...
CWD /  

Connect socket #xxx to xxxxxxxxx, port 21...
220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------  

And when it auto-reconnects, the download completes.

 

I just checked bytes as an option and it says 1,359,839,946 bytes in the ftp client.

What's strange is, on Windows is says 1.26 GB (1,359,839,946 bytes). The bytes match but not the GB size Windows is reporting from right-clicking and selecting properties.

 

Yeah. So everything is good, right?

 

It's the same bytes. Below it (size on disk) shows something different but the size above it is the same as what's shown in the ftp client when I set it to bytes.

Windows just shows the wrong GB size amount.

According to Google's embed result for Bytes to GB converter :

1,359,839,946 bytes = 1.359839946 GB

And Windows is showing 1.26 GB (not 1.3 GB) when 1,359,839,946 bytes is right beside it.

 

Awesome. So everything is fine then.