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by bigbrooklyn 3427 days ago
Congrats!

Maybe instead of or in addition to having users use their bandwidth, you can partner with ISPs like netflix openconnect to deliver content

Unmetered networks - ISPs won't like you

Metered networks - users won't like you

Brace yourself

P.S. Did you know disabling WebRTC in chrome isn't natively supported ?
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shacharz 3427 days ago
Unmetered networks - ISP benefit from more local traffic and less traffic over their peering agreements connections.

Metered networks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13502790

TBH I didn't try to disable webrtc in chrome but there are extensions that do that [1]

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/disable%20webrtc?h...

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bigbrooklyn 3427 days ago
> Unmetered networks

> Metered networks

Cool! Does this mean all peer traffic is local ? Also, how can you detect when traffic is metered ?

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shacharz 3427 days ago
traffic is as localized as possible. As a general rule you can think of, if the peer is more local to you than the nearest CDN PoP you'll receive data from the peer, otherwise you'll receive data from the CDN.

>Cool! Does this mean all peer traffic is local ? Also, how can you detect when traffic is metered ?

We combine both client side and server side methods for that.

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nix0n 3423 days ago
> if the peer is more local to you

How is this determined? Just WebRTC ping?

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