I beat google on Upload to the same server:
(316mb down/ 165 up / 3ms latency)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1284509371.png
How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
He must be from Northern Europe. Scandinavian countries have the best deals with internet connections. As for the numbers, I think 12Mbs is quite an overestimation of reality: http://www.speedtests.net/world/europe/ In the UK the fastest one can go is with Virgin 50MB. Too bad then they force you to use their own cable modem which is a piece of shit.
According to this, Virgin offer 100MB : http://www.broadband-tv-phone.com/virgin-media-cable-broadba... 100MB is also available in Ireland, through UPC: http://www.upc.ie/broadband/hundred/ (monthly cost here is roughly double the UK price. Typical! Despite the recession, it's still rip-off republic.)
big difference between MB and Mb but in any case I guess being in America I'm shafted when it comes to internet speeds.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
that sounds like an awesome investment, what are you subscribed too?
He must be from Northern Europe. Scandinavian countries have the best deals with internet connections. As for the numbers, I think 12Mbs is quite an overestimation of reality: http://www.speedtests.net/world/europe/ In the UK the fastest one can go is with Virgin 50MB. Too bad then they force you to use their own cable modem which is a piece of shit.
> In the UK the fastest one can go is with Virgin 50MB
. . . well, unless you move to Bradwell Abbey or Highams Park: then you should soon get FTTP at about 100Mbps. An Openreach guy was telling me this afternoon it should just be a few months.
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#54See the recent news about Lithuania, FTTH 10Mb for ~$6/month up to 300Mbps for ~$35/month.
http://bit.ly/infdfc (apologies for URL shortener, on mobile).
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#55Of course it's fast. They cache the whole thing :)
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
He must be from Northern Europe. Scandinavian countries have the best deals with internet connections. As for the numbers, I think 12Mbs is quite an overestimation of reality: http://www.speedtests.net/world/europe/ In the UK the fastest one can go is with Virgin 50MB. Too bad then they force you to use their own cable modem which is a piece of shit.
According to this, Virgin offer 100MB : http://www.broadband-tv-phone.com/virgin-media-cable-broadba... 100MB is also available in Ireland, through UPC: http://www.upc.ie/broadband/hundred/ (monthly cost here is roughly double the UK price. Typical! Despite the recession, it's still rip-off republic.)
Virgin 100mb is coming to my area soon :D The schedule for roll-outs across the UK is available here: http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/dam/allyours/pdf/100Mb-r...
BT are also bringing 100mb broadband in, at which speed I'm sure you'll be able to hit their ridiculously stingy monthly caps in mere minutes.
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#57Now, 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.
It's not from a dc to the speedtest node; its from the campus. It wouldn't matter anyway. I work at Cisco and I have gigabit link to the core from my laptop. Problem is the speedtest nodes can't push the traffic fast enough to fill the pipe which is something I regularly do when working with campuses in MA and NC.
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#58In my experience, it's only relative to the speed of the server that you are connecting to. I have a 20megabyte (not megabit which is a common misconception) circuit but usually can only get 5-8MB of bandwidth on average from the server that I am connecting to.
We didn't notice much of a difference when we upgraded from 10MB to 20MB for this reason. We have more pipe to download concurrently but doesn't necessarily mean that the "internet" is going to be "faster"
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#59At my office, we're struggling with a 0.25Mb up connection. What I wouldn't give for a single percent of google's connection speed...
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah. I was expecting multi-deca-gigabits at the very least.
The bandwidth each computer has access to is almost certainly not the entire bandwidth that Google gives its employees access to - if so, the per person bandwidth would be quite low. Of course, not being a Google employee, I wouldn't know for sure.
Of course, the bandwidth is limited to gigabit (probably) to the desktop, or less if the OS/Hardware can't handle it. And I'm sure they limit bandwidth for users... imagine a PC infected with a virus, or bit torrent left running, if everyone had full gigabit upload speeds.