Comment Re:which this would violate. Near preferred over C (Score 1) 112
Doesn't the bittorrent client download from both? I thought that was the whole idea.
That will depend on implementation. Certainly most clients do prefer whoever's getting you the content the fastest. So if you've got a client set up to max out at 10 connections, it will either actively look for the 10 fastest or settle on the 10 fastest.
I didn't read the article - don't want Lumpy chiding me again
I'm not even sure if that violates net neutrality unless each peer outside that network should be seen as competing with those inside that network.
From the comments, though, it seems more like they'd be trying to cache some bittorrent data and transparently serve that up to clients requesting it from what should have been a peer some hops down and/or redirecting requests from a particular peer (one that has high impact on the network) to another peer (one that has low impact on the network). The former should make a torrent download faster, the latter can go either way.