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Joe Abley wrote:
>
> If anybody has tried this, I'd be interested to hear whether on-net
> clients actually take advantage of the local monster seed, or whether
> they persist in pulling data from elsewhere.
>
The local seed would serve bulk of the data because as soon as a piece
is served from it, the client issues a new request and if the latency
and bandwidth is there, as is the case for ADSL/cable clients, usually
>80% of a file is served "locally".
I don't think additional optimization is done nor needed in the client.
Pete
