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0 pointsrunarberg12y ago0 comments

Perhaps if universities would robustly seed their staffs and students torrents?

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glomph12y ago· 1 in thread

Kind of solves a problem that doesn't exist though doesn't it? It isn't like these universities are crying about bandwidth costs and it isn't like demand is maxing out their upstream.

icebraining12y ago

It's not just about their bandwidth; some countries / zones / networks have much better local connectivity than external, particularly international.

For example, until a few years ago, some of our ISPs had different caps for national vs international traffic, and there were popular forks of P2P clients that allowed you to filter based on that.

We have since moved to unlimited everything, but I wouldn't be surprised if some countries still had different caps or speeds for international traffic.

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