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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

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1135 points carride | 2 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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samwhiteUK ◴[10 Aug 22 13:45 UTC] No.32411821[source]▶
I'm going to put my hand up and say I have absolutely no idea how an ISP works. He runs cables to each house in the area... now where does the other end go?
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the_only_law ◴[10 Aug 22 13:47 UTC] No.32411847[source]▶
Not sure if it’s what the person in question did, but there’s a whole guide that pops up on here occasionally regarding building a wireless ISP.

https://startyourownisp.com/

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kevmo314 ◴[10 Aug 22 13:59 UTC] No.32412060[source]▶
From https://startyourownisp.com/posts/fiber-provider/, doesn't this site basically say connect to another ISP?
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moffkalast ◴[10 Aug 22 14:08 UTC] No.32412223[source]▶
Well there three tiers of ISPs, each one buying service from the one above them. It's ISPs all the way down, and the higher up you go the more expensive the hardware to run it gets.
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1. Macha ◴[10 Aug 22 14:19 UTC] No.32412417[source]▶
At the T1 level it's more completely a mesh type setup, but even lower tier ISPs might set up peering agreements to bypass their main higher tier ISP where it makes sense for cost or service quality reasons. Or refuse to to extract more money as in the comcast vs level1 disputes over netflix traffic a while back
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2. carlhjerpe ◴[10 Aug 22 23:06 UTC] No.32419565[source]▶
Who is T1, T2 and T3? I really don't see it. Seems like that tiering has aged about as well as the OSI model.