Greetings,

Could someone please explain Locale Preferencing (shows up in option>advanced>preferencing) for me?

I believe that it looks for other hosts based on language and also possibly proximity to my current locatoin, but I've honestly not found much about Locale Preferencing. After doing a search on these forums, there were only a few threads that mentioned Locale Preferencing at all, and none of them really explained what it is very clearly nor whether setting higher, lower, or turning if off completely is a good/bad thing.

Right now my Locale Preferencing is set to 3 (the default value) and I'm wondering whether I could set it higher, lower, or even turn it off and get better upload/download speed and/or better searches.

Any input is greatly appreciated.