Re:Using comcast peers (Score 1)

You'd think ISPs could release some sort of network maps to the public on the IP address blocks they own or whatever, and then bittorrent clients could use that information when choosing seeds to download from and so on. I don't know how the Bittorrent protocol works internally, but given something with dozens or hundreds of seeds, why not start by contacting those within your own ISP? That's cheaper for the ISP, and theoretically should be faster for the downloader than going out of the network. For huge widely downloaded content, like WoW patches, the ISPs could seed their own copies to share and restrict connections only to people within the network. I also wonder if you can't do something like Akamai with p2p seeding, where you get assigned a seed host to connect to based on your network or geographic location...