This kind of approach rarely works. In fact, by simply decreasing peering within the relay network, relay times improved. Mostly, using this approach means your peaks (remember when a new block is found you get huge bandwidth peaks, even though amortized across even a second, you wont see all that much bandwidth) will be significantly higher, leading to strange things on the network, mostly increased packet loss. This means instead of getting a block pretty quick, you'll have to wait for the packet to timeout and get a resend. I would recommend finding only a handful of peers which are both geographically local and have high hashpower so you'll get blocks they found directly from the horse's mouth.