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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by EasyTiger_ on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:24PM (#15910486)
This doesn't make sense if the endpoint is another country, for example
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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by alexeldeib on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:46PM (#15910628)
The traffic isn't completely circumventing your last mile ISP. Just because you tunnel over that connection doesn't mean they're not serving your traffic.

Likely the outcome would be "we couldn't identify this traffic as one of our approved providers, so we used the lower of the rates we offer."

e: the second bit of that was to compare to the plan offered by a peer comment, with e.g. netflix, youtube served at higher rates and the rest at lower. So you would never see the higher rates.

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