Maleficent-Twist-308 t1_isprds2 wrote on October 17, 2022 at 8:02 PM

Reply to comment by BoricPenguin in Comcast wanted $210,000 for Internet—so this man helped expand a co-op fiber ISP | Fed up with Comcast and AT&T, Silicon Valley residents started their own network. by chrisdh79

What’s worse is these mega corps don’t even have to provide to your house to make money. The big boys own the Tier 1 backbone lines so even if you don’t have them, you likely are still paying a company who is paying them for use of the Tier 1 backbone they own. Most Tier 3 providers pay for use on Tier 1 backbone upstream from their service area.

tankerkiller125real t1_isqs1k8 wrote on October 18, 2022 at 12:30 AM

What I love is that the school districts in my county got so fed up with the big ISPs that they built their own data center, ran hundreds of miles of fiber, and managed to get Google, Level 3 and other major companies to peer inside their data center. They actually have enough peered bandwidth (without Comcast, Spectrum or ATT) that every district could have 50Gbs internet if they wanted.

Mr_Figgins t1_isrisiz wrote on October 18, 2022 at 4:08 AM

Dude, that is fucking awesome!