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ejdyksen on June 6, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29

Interesting...in the case of Steam, does the ISP run that server, or do they just whitelist the Steam server IP?

decadentcactus on June 7, 2011 | [–]

As far as I know it's the ISP which has a cache of it, so I just download from the local server.

seabee on June 7, 2011 | [–]

I know some UK ISPs have their own Steam servers.

Some also cache YouTube videos for this purpose, for example.

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