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How Fast Is Google's Internet? Mind-blowingly fast.

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I live in Lebanon we are ranked last in the world in upload speed (0.12 Mb average upload http://netindex.com/upload/allcountries/) and before last in download speed (0.51Mb average http://netindex.com/download/allcountries/)

I often click play on a youtube video, go to bed and wake up to watch it in the morning.

I am currently developing a small twitter application and the limit of 350 api requests per HOUR is often not the bottleneck.

Just needed to get that off my chest.

Wow, that sounds really bad!

Since me and lots of other people here in Latvia have fibre channel (100+Mbps, no cap, no bw limits, ~30USD with TV and phone package) at home, I'm more than certain, that there is no need to go over 100Mbps for a household (i'm not speaking of commercial or startup-ish consumers).

If you are used to downloading large files (read: torrents), they arrive blazingly fast.

If you are willing to utilize all 100Mbps at all times, you need capable router to handle not only all of bandwidth, but to be able not to choke on hundreds of high speed connections, when using P2P (that is CPU intensive).

Also, you can imagine, that i/o speed at 500Mbps (62 megaBYTEs per second) is close to the limit for common SATA drives.

And to finish - when you have network this fast, you'll soon find out, that you need some kind of NAS device, since you download stuff all the time.

Of all the perks Google has, this is one that I don't recall striking me as one I missed when I left. Comcast business class internet is certainly fast enough for standard usage.

That really isn't anything. For example: http://www.speedtest.net/result/842209723.png

Not to mention SoftLayer offers servers in Dallas with 10Gbps uplinks.

I don't see how this "really isn't anything". The speeds at Google are crazy fast in terms of the average high speed. For example, my speedtest.net results are 20 Mbps. The link you posted is just another example of how fast these companies' speeds are. To the average person, it's insane.

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