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Ask Valve to a DNS trigger to disable peer-to-peer downloads. #208

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Peer-to-peer downloads/downloading from other people on the network causes additional east/west traffic between edge switches. This can cause issues for smaller LAN parties where the bandwidth from core to edge switches becomes contended.

LanCache team should ask Valve if they can add a DNS trigger to Steam to disable peer-to-peer local network downloads. This way LAN organisers can disable this behaviour if it looks like it might be causing issues.

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