Lords of Death Forums Lords of Death Forums LoD General Discussion Google Plans To Deliver 1Gb/sec Fiber-Optic

damn, that would increase ping too right?

Latency is completely unrelated to bandwidth, however depending on how they have their fiber backbone setup there is a potential to lower latency, simply due to the fact that you have less physical hops into whoever is running Googles provider network.

-- Some ISP's BGP peering is atrocious, so hopefully they pick good peers for their customers sake.

isn't that shit as fast as...the speed of light? and that speed of light goes str8 to ur modem instead of to w\e hop thats closest to you. I wouldn't know though

Well regardless if it's a fiber connection or not it has to terminate on a CE router of some sort before being routed through the networks backbone. They most likely do the same thing you see with your current cable infrastructure, and have a customer fiber switch for each designated area of service. Those switches/routers tie back in to their network before being sent to the routers provided to them by their upstream ISP/NAP.

Ahh the glories of the interwebs.

well...who needs ping when i could download all 9 gigs of darkfall in about 45 seconds

You're also assuming that the darkfall servers would provide you that kind of throughput

THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS THE FASTEST THING IN THE UNIVERSE BRO

I submited my request for their stress tests to take place in Vegas. Lets see what happens. Would be nice to pull off streaming rhapsody playing MWF2 and dowloading files at the same time.

As with anything else this shit will all be geographically dependent, and I would imagine only in major cities for a long time. At least they're putting some of the fiber that was laid in the ground 10 years ago to use finally.