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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by ndespres on Monday February 20, 2017 @12:36PM (#13689155)
I subscribed to Chris' newsletter as I hope to hear more about the challenges involved in his endeavor. Starting a small ISP has been a vision of mine since my first after-school job at a ISP helpdesk 15 years ago. I'd really love to be involved in running a community ISP in an underserved area, so I'm interested in reading about the technical and regulatory challenges especially.

@froztbyte I'd be doubly interested in a writeup of your experience, have you blogged anywhere?

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by froztbyte on Monday February 20, 2017 @12:40PM (#13689196)
Nothing exciting published, no. Blogging wasn't particularly big around this part of the world/specific-weird-subset-of-the-market for most of that time. Should I consider writing up some of them?

Past aside, there are many things already underway, in many areas, that you could be involved in if you wished. Do some research around areas that you find yourself interested in (both technologically, and geographically), and see where that takes you.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by ndespres on Monday February 20, 2017 @12:50PM (#13689289)
I'm the type of person who can lose hours reading stories on sites like Jargon File, Folklore.org, Raymond Chen's blog about MS internals, and even more modern internet history stories. And as I wouldn't limit my search on areas to get involved in muni ISPs to my own country, a global perspective would be interesting to read.
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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by doubleplusgood on Monday February 20, 2017 @01:51PM (#13689834)
Seconded. I spent a lot of time in my teenage years just reading plaintext HOWTOs and RFCs (metered dialup sucks).
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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by rootsudo on Monday February 20, 2017 @06:06PM (#13691839)
Thirded.

It's fun, and educational. It empowers the ADHD in me.

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