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The geographic distribution benefits for archive.org seem minimal to me - for the actual content high latency isn't a big deal.

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Geographic locationa affects far more than just latency. Even though you may have a 100 Mbps link on both client and server , only 10 Mbps might make it across the Atlantic Ocean. Connections between countries/ISPs are not unlimited in capacity!

It's really benefiticial for outside of US.

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