On or before June 8, 2013, Google implemented the cache.google network to improve Internet surfing from most Android phones registered to Android phone users via gmail.
This may also apply to computers that use the Googleplus portal.
I discovered this when using the os.monitor app, the google mapper in it spat out a map of the Whitehorse, Yukon location for the IP address two zero nine dot fifty two dot one eighty nine dot eighty eight & its address written as words substituting for digits 0-9 to reduce IP address traffic from crackerjack botnets.
Great job, Google! My Zte Grand X View is totally protected by your proxy server, thanks to my provider's alliance with your global network - a joint Telus-Google venture, no doubt.
Even your YouTube app is awaiting your command to stream content suggested by my viewing habits.
NB: no evil done. The paranoid sysadmin was just overly paranoid of the ubiquity of the global cache-google server farm. Its purpose is to speed up the network using local mirros of everything they cache.
If you want to tap into it, and have a knowledge of how to do so, add the Google OpenDNS enabled DNS server at 8.8.8.8. However I am not responsibility for any loss of connectivity.
YMMV
Reference:
Shaw BC DNS redirect for Google mystifies home lan sysadmin: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28361850-BC-Shaw-DNS-redirect-for-google
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20150707
A Tale of Two LANs (satire)
It was the best of LANs, both wireless and wired, on my EPC1000HE but the speed test results were text, and not easily viewed from here. So I looked for the statistics as an image file and found them.
Here they are, simply placed with iamges and links to the statistics for both LANs.
Wireless LAN test results (asDSL WiFi):
Wireless LAN test results (access point):
LAN test results:
It appears that the wireless LAN is faster than the wired LAN, overall. You might think the download speed is a factor in determining speed but it is the ping of 22 milliseconds that indicates that WiFi is faster than a wired connexion.
Indeed, it helps too that the access point and aDSL modem/router are nearby, within 3 feet of my netbook.
My only pet peeve is Firefox makes the Adobe Flash Speedtest app by OOKLA flicker during each test.
However, this and the lofting of Chrome browser led to use of Firefox instead. Because it isn't Speedtest, I am only mentioning it to admit that this EPC1000He with 2GB RAM and an ATOM 270/280 CPU can't handle Chrome.
For advanced Linux users:
Regarding hardware, the Atheros 9280 lan/wlan PCI-E half-size card, sourced by AzureWave Technologies for Qualcom, has its 5G channel disabled in Linux. This is due to the driver, ath9k.
Here's a look at dmesg with grep looking for the string "9280":
$ dmesg|grep -i 9280
[ 13.197541] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9280 Rev:2 mem=0xf8520000, irq=19
Here they are, simply placed with iamges and links to the statistics for both LANs.
Wireless LAN test results (asDSL WiFi):
Wireless LAN test results (access point):
LAN test results:
It appears that the wireless LAN is faster than the wired LAN, overall. You might think the download speed is a factor in determining speed but it is the ping of 22 milliseconds that indicates that WiFi is faster than a wired connexion.
Indeed, it helps too that the access point and aDSL modem/router are nearby, within 3 feet of my netbook.
My only pet peeve is Firefox makes the Adobe Flash Speedtest app by OOKLA flicker during each test.
However, this and the lofting of Chrome browser led to use of Firefox instead. Because it isn't Speedtest, I am only mentioning it to admit that this EPC1000He with 2GB RAM and an ATOM 270/280 CPU can't handle Chrome.
For advanced Linux users:
Regarding hardware, the Atheros 9280 lan/wlan PCI-E half-size card, sourced by AzureWave Technologies for Qualcom, has its 5G channel disabled in Linux. This is due to the driver, ath9k.
Here's a look at dmesg with grep looking for the string "9280":
$ dmesg|grep -i 9280
[ 13.197541] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9280 Rev:2 mem=0xf8520000, irq=19
20150112
I am a Linux Advocate (satire)
I am online using a pendrive running Linux Mint 17.
Supposedly I am an über hackers, but don't feel I am that special. If I was, then I would bullying everyone on G+ because they don't get Linux and I do.
My hacking started circa 1993 until today and I hope to be hacking when I am old and grey. Maybe I hacked from the time I started modemming in 1984.
Whatever. I do not feel special, but few people understand me. I can count on one hand how many other people know what I am talking about.
Sadly, the athletes and the popular girls in school have no clue whatsoever. And their self esteem is so low that they have to ignore or bully me.
I love Linux. I live, breathe and would die for it. However, that is a stark contrast to my job description: security guard.
Except I am a computer security advocate. Computers running Windows are more likely to get infected by malware than a Linux system.
However, a hacker would have to get root on my router before he even gets inside my LAN.
Anyway, now that I have outed myself, I can bear the silence that will proceed from this point forward due to misperceptions of hackers.
Hackers are not the reason why your Windows computer got "hacked" - that was an automated script. The guy who programmed it is probably sitting in a car trying to hack into your router to get free Internet.
I do not identify with him. He has probably tried to hack his way into my LAN and failed.
If I could, I would be running snort to ensure the security of my network but I am not on my Linux at the moment. I have enjoyed Mint on my netbook.
Now it is time to test drive it on my PC. It was child's play to turn my flash drive into a Mintdisk.
Later on today I cam going to teach my Panjabi friends at the gas station about chromecast and how to use it.
I feel good.
Have fun, Windows users. I have gone light years ahead of you. So, phear me! :P
Supposedly I am an über hackers, but don't feel I am that special. If I was, then I would bullying everyone on G+ because they don't get Linux and I do.
My hacking started circa 1993 until today and I hope to be hacking when I am old and grey. Maybe I hacked from the time I started modemming in 1984.
Whatever. I do not feel special, but few people understand me. I can count on one hand how many other people know what I am talking about.
Sadly, the athletes and the popular girls in school have no clue whatsoever. And their self esteem is so low that they have to ignore or bully me.
I love Linux. I live, breathe and would die for it. However, that is a stark contrast to my job description: security guard.
Except I am a computer security advocate. Computers running Windows are more likely to get infected by malware than a Linux system.
However, a hacker would have to get root on my router before he even gets inside my LAN.
Anyway, now that I have outed myself, I can bear the silence that will proceed from this point forward due to misperceptions of hackers.
Hackers are not the reason why your Windows computer got "hacked" - that was an automated script. The guy who programmed it is probably sitting in a car trying to hack into your router to get free Internet.
I do not identify with him. He has probably tried to hack his way into my LAN and failed.
If I could, I would be running snort to ensure the security of my network but I am not on my Linux at the moment. I have enjoyed Mint on my netbook.
Now it is time to test drive it on my PC. It was child's play to turn my flash drive into a Mintdisk.
Later on today I cam going to teach my Panjabi friends at the gas station about chromecast and how to use it.
I feel good.
Have fun, Windows users. I have gone light years ahead of you. So, phear me! :P
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