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		deelowe on Dec 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The internet doesn't care about multiplayer games FedEx doesn't have the ability to control the stop lights at each intersection along the way, the major peering providers do. This analogy doesn't work.

huffmsa on Dec 11, 2019 [–]

Traffic lights are more akin to the latency of hardware switches, which affect everyone.

FedEx does control which locations they stop at and make pickups/dropoffs.

You can pay more to make sure they only stop with you.

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