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Even if you have gigabit in Australia, the latency when browsing Youtube and clicking through menus is a world of difference when you compare it to the US

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Is it the same while watching videos (i.e. a lot of buffering or similar)? I thought that YT caches popular content close to end users [1].

[1] https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure -> Under the edge nodes part

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