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Check out Fast.com. If your loaded latency numbers are high, it's possible you won't do well with Stadia.

The best test is going to be using it. There are too many factors to have a good predictive test.

Last mile times are always going to cause lag. 5g won't be rolled out for years, then you'll need a phone to take advantage of it so that's not going to help. Last mile in US performance is really poor unless you're on full fiber which isn't offered in most of the US. Even with direct peering to the ISPs, which they don't have, this isn't likely to be a superior experience compared to a local machine. They'll have to push the entire video stream along with the intelligence. That's a lot of data that can't be lagged.

> which they don't have,

Can't directly refute this, but wouldn't you think GCP is peered with the vast majority of local ISPs (in America and maybe the EU)?

No. I don't not believe they've done this. They don't peer easily or often and peering with local partners is not something most people want to do, even Google. It takes trust on the part of the local service provider, which Google hasn't built as Google is often a direct competitor to their local products. Peering at the ISP level is really hard because it's all relationship management. Google couldn't manage their own fiber and built up a good deal of animosity with other networks in doing so, especially in the US.

https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure send to say otherwise. It's in the best interest of both parties, so not sure why they wouldn't have done this.

Interesting information. There's definitely a bit of marketing going on there, but it seems that they have at least some peering. Without concrete public evidence otherwise I'll concede that Google must have great peering.

Google/AS15169 has an open peering policy.

From a network administrator's point of view, they're an absolute joy to work with too.

If you're share any IXes with them at all, they'll peer with you. Private / appliance based peering has additional requirements, but that's par for course.

Most of the pushback is on the ISP end.

What's high? Mine is 36ms loaded according to that site.

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