Google recently thinks I'm in India and has been serving me up Indian YouTube adds recently. I work in Beijing using a Japanese proxy, so I don't really get how that works.
I noticed the google.tw from AWS instances that are hosted in the US. Seemed odd to me at the time, but it's even more odd that it's the same on workspace instances too.
The UX for the account setup and workspace admin is pretty rough, feels MVP (but it works).
It took about 30 minutes for my machine to be provisioned. Then I got an email. Downloaded the OS X client, about 30 megs.
Launched. Took about a minute to login and get my machine booted.
GUI performance for small area updates is great, dragging a window not so great. It is usable, but not fluid.
My connection is showing 70Mbps/10Mbps with 12ms latency on speedtest.net
Using a IE. Oh this is interesting – when going to Google, I am at google.tw
Where is this machine hosted? Showing an IP of 54.85.209.100 (US), odd...
Visiting Youtube, Youtube.tw comes up, video is a bit choppy, audio is fine.
Visiting nytimes.com. Loading is a bit slow, scrolling is very choppy. Text selection is very fast.
Downloaded some CSV, opens in Excel. This is fast, and very usable.
Disconnect.
Log back in, everything is just as I left it (of course).
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I download the client for the iPad, enter the registration code, and login.
There is a 13 part tutorial on gestures (way too many for me to remember) Fortunately you can drag a menu of commands from the left side easily.
I play around a bit, it works fine.
Now I login from my computer, oh bummer, my iPad session was disconnected.
You can only be logged in from device at a time. That is too bad. It would be nice to share.