Re:Google Teases a Big Gaming Announcement for March 19th
by babypuncher on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @04:30PM
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I think even 1000 miles is a bit generous, since you likely don't get networking in a straight line between your house in the data center.
In Utah I get traffic routed through Denver and a few other states east of me before hitting certain servers hosted in California.
Unless Google has figured out a way to increase the speed of light, I don't think this new service is really going to change my mind about buying dedicated hardware to play games.
Re:Google Teases a Big Gaming Announcement for March 19th
by shereadsthenews on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @11:03PM
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Google has racks full of equipment at every ISP in America, even the minor ones. They can bring this latency down to 5ms or less.
Only to a point.
For these streaming services to work, you really gotta have the data center within 1000 miles of you. If they only have a service in say, California, and you're on the east coast, well...even a round trip at the speed of light is about 30-35 ms. Add in the fact that electricity doesn't actually travel at the speed of light, processing time for routers, and delays for video compression/decompression, and you're looking at at least 60 ms delay on inputs that probably can't possibly be reduced.