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Their ping is 3ms. Pretty latency-free :) (FWIW, my ping is 450ms)
Their ping to what?
To a server in SF located < 50 miles away.
How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
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#32Any of us could have that if we felt OK paying for an OC3 or OC12 connection at your home or office, right? I'm sure plenty of companies and universities have such service.
Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
#33Is the average US home internet connection really 10Mbps?? I find that hard to believe.
Seriously. I wish I could get 10mbps internet at home...I haven't been able to do so in almost 10 years of living in a very big city and the suburbs of another very major city...
Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
#34Now, let’s put these numbers into perspective. According to Ookla’s Net Index, the average speed for a country in Europe is around 12 Mb/second. That's partly because most people are happy with such speeds (or at least the speed/price ratio). At home I have a subscription with 120MBit/s downstream. Speed tests usually give 130MBit/s during daytime and 140MBit/s at night. Given that, 500MBit/s downstream is the very m…
I suspect too that there just might have been a fast link between the google and speedtest datacenters, maybe because google earlier rented part of the other dc. A 3 ms ping looks like it must be from a bay area dc to SFO. They should really do an avg of times/bw to other speedtest nodes in US.
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#35I'm more impressed that speedtest's server can push data upstream that fast, unless I'm mistaken about how the test works.
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#36I don't get the point of this post. If the screenshot said MB/s then that was something.
My Apt has a corporate internet freely available for the residents and I always get 500 - 700Mbps.
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#37That's pretty crazy, I get 6Mbit on a good day.
Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
#38And now for a bit of perspective, here in India I am working with a 512kbps connection, which is the only one I can get without any 'fair use' caps. The latency for the fastest DNS is about 350ms, and on weekends, my bandwidth can be as low as 200kbps.
Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
#39Now, let’s put these numbers into perspective. According to Ookla’s Net Index, the average speed for a country in Europe is around 12 Mb/second. That's partly because most people are happy with such speeds (or at least the speed/price ratio). At home I have a subscription with 120MBit/s downstream. Speed tests usually give 130MBit/s during daytime and 140MBit/s at night. Given that, 500MBit/s downstream is the very m…
that sounds like an awesome investment, what are you subscribed too?
Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
#40And now for a bit of perspective, here in India I am working with a 512kbps connection, which is the only one I can get without any 'fair use' caps. The latency for the fastest DNS is about 350ms, and on weekends, my bandwidth can be as low as 200kbps.
Are you in a major city or a more outlying area? Is that a wired, or wireless, connection? Even wired access could have wireless backhaul... assuming yours is wired, is that the reason for the slowness, or have they really been mad at work all over India laying conduit with copper instead of fiber?