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by almost_usual 2238 days ago
Thanks for the insight and sharing your experience on the network.
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I think higher latency will be expected as the nodes you are connected will be randomly assigned geographically, which is necessary for anonymity and security goals of the network.

But the download speed itself should be faster than what typical CDNs might offer, as all chunks could be downloaded in parallel, and in some cases the experience could be felt as instantaneous. The effect would be a network where all content within the SAFE network would be like torrenting with guaranteed number of seeds with 100% uptime. The only limitation would be your local bandwidth.