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Re:Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu by fromhet on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @07:11PM (#3979449)
Then there would have to be some feature that filtered non-NZ-peers. Would be great, but I don't think any bittorrent implementation supports this (yet).
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Re:Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu by Drbble on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @01:28AM (#3980630)
A firewall rule on your router should work?
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Re:Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu by insn on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @08:19PM (#3979675)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Peer_Discovery
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Re:Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu by wmf on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @09:03PM (#3979817)
That's local as in Local Area Network as in it discovers other peers inside your house. To discover other peers in the same ISP you'll need to wait a few more years for ALTO.
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Re:Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu by kalmi10 on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @09:03PM (#3979822)
Local Peer Discovery is for LANs
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