On Wednesday 03 December 2008 16:06:59 Hari Kurup wrote: > That would be second I think. First would be the kind of > bandwidth two fellows on the same ISP have between > themselves.
The benefit of using a local seed is improved performance through reduced latency. Without a local exchange point, traffic is switched through some foreign country (take your pick). This increases the bandwidth cost of ISP's, who's only recourse of recovery is to pass this cost along to their customers. Adding in the cost of leasing last mile, as well as the 1,200ms latency for ISP A on Luwum Street to reach ISP B on Kampala Road, I'd rather have a 128Kbps at home with a seed reachable over the exchange point, because any packet loss will be quickly addressed (and not be as severely amplified) with the reduced latency. Mark.
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