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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 | 1 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | 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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1. andix ◴[10 Aug 22 16:21 UTC] No.32414510[source]▶
I think you more or less just buy connections from bigger ISPs, so for example you get a 100 Gbps connection to one location and distribute it to your end users from there.

Most of the equipment you can buy, you can even get a lot of the needed things as a service. You just need to organize all those hardware and software things, and get the economic and legal part right too. And in the end it needs to tie together in a way, that your earnings are bigger then your expenses.

I think it’s not so different to opening a car repair shop for example. Just more nerdy.