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

My wife did this, about 6 months of digging up roads in central London. Would recommend. AMA.

As a fellow Londerer please please expand on this. Like, why, what were the returns, what'd you peer into?

Why - 30mbps download and 0.5mbps upload, it was really the upload that was crippling (think video conferencing)

What were the returns - time will tell, but I probably have the best internet in London

What do we peer into - 10Gbps of NTT, two more 1 Gbps full peering sessions, plus the LONAP internet exchange to pick up Google, Netflix, etc. Plus my wife (AS210412) peers with me (AS211289) of course.

How long did it take to complete? Central London seems like high density, how many users do you have? Can you share website, I can forward to some central London folks!

Less than 12 months from incorporating a company to go live, about 6 months of that was road works.

Low hundreds of homes (so low probability that you know anyone there, and if you do they have already heard about it).

https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/company/hampstead-fibre

How did you meet your wife with an ASN? Asking for a friend...

We were interns (software engineers) at Deutsche Bank, and unfortunately she didn’t have an ASN back then.

Also some bias shows here - surely the question should be ‘how did you meet your wife with multiple 3 ton excavators’.

What kind of research did you do to achieve this? Any workshops or did you talk to other ISPs to gain knowledge?