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by jon-wood 1801 days ago
Steam and other game distribution systems also have an extensive network of edge caches around the world, and Linux distros have had local mirrors since forever.

It’s also pretty common for people running large LAN parties to run a local Steam cache so that when everyone in the building decides to download a game on the list of tournaments it’s coming over the local network rather than downloading hundreds of copies from the Internet.