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MrDresden on Jan 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

I wonder if this is due to MS hosting their content at fewer datacenters and thus needing to balance the data flow to each user better.

Valve has boxes hosted at many ISPs around the world and so each location could have lower usage numbers, thus less need to throttle.

Pure speculation though.

fomine3 on Jan 19, 2022 [–]

Valve's CDN (In my recent case, Akamai or Limelight) achieves fastest download speed I've ever used. I wonder why they do aggressively, and other don't.

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