Re: Small / Rural ISP owners

[Dermot Williams <Dermot.Williams () imaginegroup ie>]

Steam’s CDN uses HTTP to distribute downloads(1), so you could route Steam-related HTTP traffic through a caching proxy 
if you wanted to relieve your transit/peering links.

That does nothing for the parts of the network that are actually under bandwidth pressure though (i.e. the last mile 
or, in our case as an FWA provider, the RAN).


  1.  SteamPipe - Valve Developer Community<https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamPipe#LAN_Caching>


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Dermot Williams

Head of Core Engineering

Imagine Network Services Ltd.

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+dermot.williams=imaginegroup.ie () nanog org> on behalf of Josh Luthman <josh () 
imaginenetworksllc com>
Date: Friday, 22 November 2024 at 14:26
To: Mehmet <mehmet () akcin net>
Cc: nanog <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Small / Rural ISP owners

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Rural has nothing to do with it.  It's 100% about the network and internet service delivery.

We are a small rural ISP doing gigabit fiber and I personally live in a city with a coax/fiber/FWA options.  Gaming 
works just fine on any of them.

I don't believe there are any cache boxes for games, I haven't seen anything along those lines but bandwidth is pretty 
cheap for us - it's getting it to peoples houses that's the expense.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 8:33 AM Mehmet <mehmet () akcin net<mailto:mehmet () akcin net>> wrote:
Are there a lot of gamers in rural areas? Do the rural ISPs have challenges with reaching gaming servers. I do not know 
if gaming or caching or both a challenge for rural isps due to being distant from population centers and possibly caches

Mehmet


On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 08:32 Josh Luthman <josh () imaginenetworksllc com<mailto:josh () imaginenetworksllc com>> 
wrote:
Might want to say why.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 6:50 AM Mehmet <mehmet () akcin net<mailto:mehmet () akcin net>> wrote:
Hello - i am looking for small ISP owners, Rural ISPs in FL, TX, NY, VA, CA (but anywhere in the world is fine).

If anyone lurking on the list please contact me offlist

Mehmet
+1-424-298-1903