Fred,
I think the geographical distance isn’t a big deal since we are talking about a relatively very low data volume. The motivation to send to ahubwest and ahubca is their dup and format checking. Its my understanding that aprseast works OK, but doesn’t do the error checking.
With Brian’s latest FTPUPD, you don’t have to force a connection and he points to ahubwest as a default.
Hope this makes sense!
DaveH