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

(arstechnica.com)
1135 points carride | 2 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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atentaten ◴[10 Aug 22 14:55 UTC] No.32413048[source]▶
Is he connecting to a backbone or to another ISP?
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1. woah ◴[10 Aug 22 15:05 UTC] No.32413226[source]▶
The "backbone" is made up of other ISPs
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2. tomjakubowski ◴[10 Aug 22 16:08 UTC] No.32414331[source]▶
That's right, a backbone is made up of ISPs: individual spine pieces, or vertebrae.