Google the ISP and the case of the YouTube speed test

[power666]

Google is getting into the ISP business. Their goal is to wire up several neighborhoods with 1 Gbit fiber connections while maintaining affordability for mere mortals. The best way to describe this new is that of a game changer. This is the first time a new player is challenging the telecoms and cable companies with enough resources to start a full scale war on price, speed and features. This also affects net neutrality as Google is promising unfiltered access much like their recent public DNS offering.

If you want Google to wire up your neighborhood, sign up.

If you are lucky enough to get 1 Gbit fiber connection from Google, what are you going to do to test it? Well Youtube has introduced a new feature that may come in handy: a speed test. This not only records in an overly how fast you are able to download the streaming video but information like how many dropped frames are dropped during playback. Your speeds are compared with other users from your ISP as well as your geographic region. While this is a genuine real world scenario of your online speed, sites like SpeedTest.net are still useful. ISP's are notorous for throttling sites like YouTube where as sites built for testing your speed are left untapped. The one thing missing from YouTube's test is the geographic location where their servers are for delivering video to you.

[chedabob]

From what I understand, Google aren't going to become the sole ISP for that fiber, they're also providing the infrastructure so other companies can hop on and give the users more freedom.

[Sheff159]

hopefully this little experiment goes well and starts to shift the norm in this country. Get a little competition going and stimulate some innovation. Though the thought of Google becoming a major ISP along with everything else they do is a bit scary. They just keep getting bigger and bigger with no end in sight.

[goldmember]

Indeed, while it's great news, Google can be frightening sometimes. They want to be in every aspect of your life, which could be useful but also fucking terrifying.

[Herpes]

Only one testing mechanism in existence that has the possibility of testing a 1gbps connection: torrents.

[Darth Alec]

Good shit. SPARTAFREEDOMERICA needs some more capitalism.

Also lol herpes.

[Sheff159]

Actually a great way to test it would be if they also give people 1 Petabyte arrays and see how long it takes us to download the entire contents of the Library of Congress. Only about 20 Terabytes of pure text yes, but the library has tons more shit. And then with the space left over, we fill with porn and pirated movies of course.

[chedabob]

Actually a great way to test it would be if they also give people 1 Petabyte arrays and see how long it takes us to download the entire contents of the Library of Congress. Only about 20 Terabytes of pure text yes, but the library has tons more shit. And then with the space left over, we fill with porn and pirated movies of course.

3 months 1 day 8 hours 13 minutes 20 seconds, assuming saturation, and people having hardware that could support sustained 1gbps writing (which over bit-torrent, not likely).

[GitMo]

Google Energy

Google is Skynet

I love Skynet

[power666]

I used to live in Google, Kansas.