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Centurylink has mediocre peering via IPv4, but decent peering via IPv6 (which seems to be caused by peering with Hurricane Electric on IPv6 only).
CenturyLink seems to be a huge mess. They have at least 4 or 5 login pages. They seem to have acquired a bunch of smaller ISPs and not quite consolidated yet.
Not that it's Skype's fault they're getting throttled, but I wish I had an alternative to Skype. I haven't found a service that lets me dial worldwide (particularly USA/Canada) at anywhere near the rates Skype offers.
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Local CDN im guessing. We had the same thing in South Africa. For a while you could get 90% discounted local only data.
> For a while you could get 90% discounted local only data. Interesting idea. It's usually the last-mile that's the hard part - I presume that's the reason it's no longer done? Did 'local content' include, say, Netflix?
Even better is the eco-system it spawned. Myself and others ended up with 2 connections & network magic to split traffic dynamically to optimise cost.
Netflix wasn't a thing back then in SA (and even now isn't big).
However these local only packages did come with access to the ISP's usenet server so people downloaded mountains of ahem linux ISOs.
>I presume that's the reason it's no longer done?
No. Couple of big undersea cables hit SA shortly after. So current thinking is more managing capacity during peak times with various incentives ("night time data" etc)