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burnwood · 09-12-2003, 12:30 PM

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wco81 said:

How can they do that? Some people are going to be in some farflung place. How do they guarantee that some guy in Georgia is going to have the shortest hops to me if I try to play him?

Just to educate you a bit. It's general term is internet caching. Microsoft and other big players has switches, relays, and other goodies all over the internet for quality assurance.

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I'm not even sure ISPs necessarily control the number of hops between one of their subscribers and a given site or person. That is why they use things like Akamai to cache popular sites more closer to their network.

There you go. You answered your original question.

09-12-2003, 12:30 PM	#30
burnwood MVP OVR: 14 Join Date: May 2003 Location: MD Posts: 2,271	Re: Alright SEGA. Please get it in gear! Quote: *wco81 said:* How can they do that? Some people are going to be in some farflung place. How do they guarantee that some guy in Georgia is going to have the shortest hops to me if I try to play him? Just to educate you a bit. It's general term is internet caching. Microsoft and other big players has switches, relays, and other goodies all over the internet for quality assurance. Quote: I'm not even sure ISPs necessarily control the number of hops between one of their subscribers and a given site or person. That is why they use things like Akamai to cache popular sites more closer to their network. There you go. You answered your original question.