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		zorr on April 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when openin... That's basically what Netflix does with its fast.com service. This could be an interesting business model for a VPN service. Host a popular speedtest and VPN endpoints on the same IP's. The challenge is to make the speedtest popular enough so ISP's will optimize for it.

FredPret on April 17, 2022 [–]

It would be cool if all our devices could talk to one another directly in a huge mesh network with no ISPs whatsoever. I do so detest the usual ISP user experience

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