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Anecdata: long long time ago (~2005), living in central Europe, I used to use a direct-connect p2p client where you could connect to the "hubs", see the members
by jakub_g 11y ago
Anecdata: long long time ago (~2005), living in central Europe, I used to use a direct-connect p2p client where you could connect to the "hubs", see the members and see the actual file lists of those members. I quickly learnt that Swedish hubs and people with [Telia] prefix in their nick were the best bets - getting stuff from them was like downloading on a LAN.
I believe those guys are able to deliver it.
- johansch 11y agoHehe. And we (Swedes) felt the opposite when getting connected to people from the rest of Europe. :) (I'm only slightly confused that you learned to recognize the Telia prefix rather than the B2/BBB/Bredbandsbolaget prefix. Telia was predominantly ADSL with like 15/1 and B2 was Ethernet with either 100/10 or 10/10.)
- Strom 11y agoFrom my experience, Telia was always known as quality, and BBB as the lowest tier crap. The routing quality difference was huge. Although yes, the Telia connections were business/edu class.
- johansch 11y agoStrange. BBB actually (sorry, I simplied above) had two types of customers, ADSL and Fiber/Ethernet. Maybe the routing to eastern Europe was different. Hmm, actually: I do know that Telia Networks invested quite a lot in eastern Europe during the past two decades. Perhaps what you were seeing was a result of that.
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