[LINK] A non-sensationalist look at Australian internet speeds

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 17:52:22 AEDT 2016


On 3/25/16, JanW <jwhit at internode.on.net> wrote:

> I would just like to know why YouTube vids stop every 5 minutes. It's not my
> network connection/provider because it doesn't happen with other streaming
> services like Netflix. It's just Youtube. And of course if Youtube
> recognises there's a problem and shows me the Internode performance, there
> is nothing there to indicate it's an Internode problem.

Hi Jan,

AFAIK, Google offers "peering" to ISPs world-wide (in the countries
where Google operates datacenters).

https://peering.google.com/#/

Down here at the other side (.AR) I get Youtube videos at full speed
(50 Mbps) over my GPON FTTH link, as if they were a local download
(most of the time, they seem to be).

How do I know? I test to download a video (instead of streaming it)
using the youtube-dl open source script
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

Screenshot:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUJVKiFWEAAea8u.jpg

So the questions to ask are:

1. does Google operate its own datacenter in Australia for local
delivery of videos (or at least caching of the most popular ones)?
(if it doesn't, maybe it RENTs datacenter capacity from someone else)

2. are there any "peering" agreements between Google and your ISP?

See also
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/why-youtube-buffers-the-secret-deals-that-make-and-break-online-video/

Food for thought.
FC



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