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On the contract with your ISP, is the 1 Gbps guaranteed on the local level, regional level or Internet level? And how many transit/peers does your ISP have? Some autonomous systems don’t have multi gigabit interconnection speeds. Any of them could be a bottleneck of your speed to the cloud storage service.
I guess just local sense it is home Fiber. AT&T Fiber.
No idea.
So is it better to just make my own cloud storage ?
The good part is you are a customer of AT&T, one of the major players in the industry. That means your place and cloud storage companies on the Internet are well connected and should have decent speeds.
On the other hand, ISPs oversell their bandwidth, especially on residential services, either to save cost or to subsidize their business services. That means you are sharing the 1Gbps with your neighbors, even you might be noticing it.
On the cloud storage providers, it's pretty much the same. They don't have 1 Gbps dedicated just for one customer.
So your option would be not only building your own cloud storage, but also pay much higher prices to remove the bottlenecks, if you really want to saturate the 1 Gbps.
On the other hand, ISPs oversell their bandwidth, especially on residential services, either to save cost or to subsidize their business services. That means you are sharing the 1Gbps with your neighbors, even you might be noticing it.
On the cloud storage providers, it's pretty much the same. They don't have 1 Gbps dedicated just for one customer.
So your option would be not only building your own cloud storage, but also pay much higher prices to remove the bottlenecks, if you really want to saturate the 1 Gbps.
Speed from any Cloud server will slow do to distance, speed and load on server do to how popular the server!
Depends, any cloud server distance from you will cause speed slowness because of all the hops it has to make! Also even Apple has outages that's when bookmark the Apple Support web site System Status that tell you if any web service is having problems!
give filen.io a try. They give free 10GB but in my uploads they did throttle me. Maybe in the paid plans they do not throttle.
Please be careful as this service is a small time company run by like 3 people or something like that but its cheap and fast.
Please be careful as this service is a small time company run by like 3 people or something like that but its cheap and fast.