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Nextgridtoday at 11:55 AM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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bjackmantoday at 3:24 PM

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

stefan_today at 12:17 PM

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.

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