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How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

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Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

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Post by forensic »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #70

When I read these I'm amused that people are surprised by Google's network. Its actual capability is nominally secret (my employment agreement and exit agreement both mention restrictions on revealing non-public details of Google's infrastructure) Except in this case there many publically available clues which should give you an idea here. Consider that Google is investing in undersea cables [1] which nominally provi…

While on the topic of YouTube... why does YouTube constantly buffer these days?

Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

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Post by vijaykotari »

runningdogx wrote: post #40
spiffworks wrote: post #38

And 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?

Probably in an outlying area. I live in Hyderabad, and I get 4 Mbps for ~$55. Sigh.

Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

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Post by mahyarm »

forensic wrote: post #71
ChuckMcM wrote: post #70

When I read these I'm amused that people are surprised by Google's network. Its actual capability is nominally secret (my employment agreement and exit agreement both mention restrictions on revealing non-public details of Google's infrastructure) Except in this case there many publically available clues which should give you an idea here. Consider that Google is investing in undersea cables [1] which nominally provi…

While on the topic of YouTube... why does YouTube constantly buffer these days?

Your ISP? Youtube takes 10-20% of typical internet traffic (more than bittorrent) and competes with telecom TV offerings.

Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

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Post by vijaykotari »

joshu wrote: post #72

IIRC the internet felt faster in my apartment in Palo Alto (100mbit burstable to town fiber) than on the Google campus. Yahoo's office connectivity was pretty great, though. Maybe they are messing with people?

Were you on the guest network in Google?

Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

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Post by sliverstorm »

I find faster internet stops meaning anything once I have reached speeds that allow 100MB downloads in less than 30 seconds, and the connection provides I am not every user, but I personally find that I only rarely download files larger than 100MB, so anything faster is generally underutilized.

Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

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Post by patrickk »

kin wrote: post #52
patrickk wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oops, should have proof-read that...

Here's something interesting - Hong Kong's got 1000Mbps, because the company is question is willing to swallow large losses for years to gain market share. Also mentioned is what it would require for the same to happen in the US -

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/business/06digi.html?_r=2&...

Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

Came across these sorts of speeds when FTTP (Fibre To The Premises) was first released for domestic use in the UK last year, http://alicious.com/2010/400mbps-internet-via-fttp/.

For that blog post the writer compared the potential 400Mbps to the 40Mbps of a blu-ray disc.

This seems to be a precursor to widespread use of cloud based disc access for general computing with a relatively small SSD buffer?

Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

hxa7241 wrote: post #53
crocowhile wrote: post #44

Earlier 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.

> 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.

Reports (I blogged about it) had the first FTTP Plusnet customer connected in July 2010 at "between 67.2Mbps and 92.37Mbps".

Re: How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.

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Post by tluyben2 »

forensic wrote: post #71
ChuckMcM wrote: post #70

When I read these I'm amused that people are surprised by Google's network. Its actual capability is nominally secret (my employment agreement and exit agreement both mention restrictions on revealing non-public details of Google's infrastructure) Except in this case there many publically available clues which should give you an idea here. Consider that Google is investing in undersea cables [1] which nominally provi…

While on the topic of YouTube... why does YouTube constantly buffer these days?

Ha! I was wondering that as well. It went from the best way to watch short clips to a very average way. The (big) competitors don't buffer for me, while Youtube does these days.
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