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by elktea 3581 days ago
Interesting setup. For my company (in Aus) our most expensive cost, by far and away, is the last-mile bandwidth.
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That's relatively a new problem for you, 6-7 years ago before the new oceanic cables it would have been a different story.

India isn't that well connected considering it's a nation of 1.5bln people or is it 3 now.

And since many torrent trackers now disable DHT and local peer discovery you tend to get random peers rather than be able to connect to peers close to you which means they get more and more international traffic.

Considering Indian ISPs don't have much to offer in terms of interconnects and peering agreements they most likely pay premium on their end to peer with tier 1 and tier 2 service providers in Europe and the US.

So for them the international bandwidth is very expensive. For you in the down under the available international bandwidth at this point exceeds you local one since the infrastructure lags behind because for many years it was pointless to lay fiber locally as there wasn't enough available bandwidth to feed it.

P.S. I don't think too many people would get your pun most of the users here are far too young and far to restless ;)