[BillFranklin]

Anyone want to take a guess at Google's motive (other than goodwill)? Better access to East Asian customers?

[fred_durst]

> This will get it pretty close to the company’s data center in The Dalles, Ore., and give that facility a better connection to Japan.

That seems like enough to me.

[teek]

I've been living in Japan and access across the pond is a bit flaky at times. Most of the time I can blame my local service provider (a sharehouse) for their piece of shit router, but there are countless numbers of times when a stream will suddenly cut or a connection will just time out for no good reason (while other simultaneous connections even across the ocean are fine).

[BillFranklin]

Ah, thanks for the background info.