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Woulden't bittorrent be beneficial in NZ for popular torrents since not everybody needs to download the entire content through the Southern Cross Cable but inst

by uggedal 14y ago

Woulden't bittorrent be beneficial in NZ for popular torrents since not everybody needs to download the entire content through the Southern Cross Cable but instead could download some from local NZ peers?

fromhet 14y ago
Then there would have to be some feature that filtered non-NZ-peers. Would be great, but I don't think any bittorrent implementation supports this (yet).
- insn 14y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Peer_Discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Peer_Discovery
  - wmf 14y ago
    That's local as in Local Area Network as in it discovers other peers inside your house. To discover other peers in the same ISP you'll need to wait a few more years for ALTO.
  - kalmi10 14y ago
    Local Peer Discovery is for LANs
- Drbble 14y ago
  A firewall rule on your router should work?
frio 14y ago
In a perfect world: yes. In reality: your uploads count towards your data cap, and national traffic is no longer free (it used to be). When your data cap is expensive/small, seeding can cost you a significant amount of money.