How does ISP Peering work? Is it safe?

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I have recently noticed that many ISP provide more speed on torrent dl and on some certain websites. Despite the actual plan speed.
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Check above plans of an ISP. They provide 50mbps peering speed and 25mbps rest of internet speed.

I understand torrent basic peering structure. In which files are directly download from the user system. who have already downloaded that file and now seeding (uploading) it.

But i don't understand how does ISP peering work?
ISP allow peering speed on many website. i.e : ISP allow peering speed for Google Play, YouTube, dailymotion etc.
How one can allow peering on YouTube? They do not work like torrent.
How ISP is able to provide such high speed for certain website and slow for other?
Please explain.

What my theory right now is. There might be any local server where all the YouTube frequently played video are saved and when any new user request to watch the same video then ISP might redirect them to the local server instead of the YouTube actual server and same for other website such as Google Play. Where apps are stored on local server and send to the user.
Am i right?

Thank You

note : I know this thread is not specific to jio instead its about all ISP so i posted it here. Since there is no section for such thread.
 
I am going to assume that your IP would be public so what you are downloading could easily be linked to you. So that risk would still remain. Apart from that I am not sure what else is there to worry about. You would get faster speeds on popular torrents. So it's useful.

As for peering with web services. They are just providing faster access to certain services because they have local servers that cache data in their data centers. So, it is cheaper, even free for them to provide access to. I am not sure if it goes against network neutrality. Probably doesn't if the plan is unlimited. I am however not sure if peering would work on every single YouTube video. Maybe the servers are designed to instantly pull the video being accessed so that they are available at faster speeds to end user.
 
they are dedicated servers designed for peering and caching popular data. i am not into technical aspects. but your core question was about safety. and you are just as safe on them as you are on the internet.
 
It's not against net neutrality as long as they don't charge you extra for other sites.
 
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