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shacharz

Unmetered networks - ISP benefit from more local traffic and less traffic over their peering agreements connections.

Metered networks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13502790

TBH I didn't try to disable webrtc in chrome but there are extensions that do that [1]

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/disable%20webrtc?h...

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> Unmetered networks

> Metered networks

Cool! Does this mean all peer traffic is local ? Also, how can you detect when traffic is metered ?

traffic is as localized as possible. As a general rule you can think of, if the peer is more local to you than the nearest CDN PoP you'll receive data from the peer, otherwise you'll receive data from the CDN.

>Cool! Does this mean all peer traffic is local ? Also, how can you detect when traffic is metered ?

We combine both client side and server side methods for that.

> if the peer is more local to you

How is this determined? Just WebRTC ping?

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