{"id":286,"date":"2007-11-07T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T18:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2007-11-07T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T18:44:12","slug":"is-google-buying-local-bandwith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/is-google-buying-local-bandwith\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Google buying local bandwith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using the Unix utility ping to check the speed I can relay information to and from various organizations. Here are some approximate times for a few:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slicehost.com\">Slicehost<\/a>: 60ms<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourceforge.net\">Sourceforge<\/a>: 80ms<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\">Cambridge University Press<\/a>: 110 ms<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/boingbong.net\">BoingBoing<\/a>: 30ms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I tried a bunch of others, and the times above were fairly typical, with 30-100 ms common for sites in North America, and 80-150ms outside.  I&#8217;m based in Waterloo, Canada, so that distribution is not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Google, however, consistently came in with times between 5-20ms.  So far as I know, they don&#8217;t have any local datacenters, so I&#8217;m wondering how they&#8217;re doing this, and, if they&#8217;re creating local infrastructure to serve results quickly, how broadly they&#8217;re doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Could readers in other cities try doing the same experiment, and put the results in comments?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Well, that was quick.  A helpful commenter points me to <a href=\"http:\/\/just-ping.com\/\">just-ping.com<\/a>, which basically automates this.  Looks like I&#8217;m seeing a local anomaly &#8211; presumably Google has a data center somewhere nearby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using the Unix utility ping to check the speed I can relay information to and from various organizations. Here are some approximate times for a few: Slicehost: 60ms Sourceforge: 80ms Cambridge University Press: 110 ms BoingBoing: 30ms. I tried a bunch of others, and the times above were fairly typical, with 30-100 ms&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/is-google-buying-local-bandwith\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Google buying local bandwith?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}