Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Friday 11 June 2010 11:52:42 Merciadri Luca wrote:
>
>
> Closer geographically generally means fewer intermediate routers ("hops").
> Fewer hops generally means lower round-time times ("pings"). Lower pings
> indirectly allows larger TCP/IP windows, and thus, higher maximum bandwidth.
>
> In addition, spreading the load among multiple servers means fewer users per
> server, which increases the bandwidth available to each user.
>
> More bandwidth means less download time.
>
> The cdn service also removes out-of-date, heavily loaded, or "down" servers
> from the results, meaning you are less likely to get old packages or download
> failures.
>
That's on a theoretical point of view. Practically, there is quite no
difference, at least most of the time.
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