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		Nextgrid 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires Peering between your ISP and Valve is likely saturated. Considering Valve has an incentive to make downloads fast (= more revenue), it's likely your ISP is being stingy in this case.

stefan_ 8 days ago | [–]

And ISPs in most of the western world have no incentives to fix it, instead trying to scam Valve and others to get paid twice.

Nextgrid 8 days ago | | [–]

The business model of consumer ISPs is "take the money and don't deliver" so this tracks.

bjackman 8 days ago | [–]

I would have assumed valve use some third party CDN but yeah this would make sense I guess

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