7MB per download, 0.8MB per upload on average. Why?

Out of curiosity I built a distribution of file sizes in my blobs/ directory:

  1k: 190668
  2k: 101621
  4k:  88516
  8k:  66608
 16k:  61292
 32k:  60998
 64k:  62332
128k:  77795
256k: 123921
512k:  53416
  1M: 219292
  2M: 1293863
  4M:   3335
  8M:  16809
 16M:    811

Which suggests that pieces can be as small as 1-2 kb and max size for my node is so far 20995328 bytes.

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