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Re:Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations by worldofmatthew on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:04PM (#25874240)
You pay your ISP for their transit and peering blend. The same as I pay my Web host for access to their transit blend.

This is a seprate issue from what most people see as net neutrality. If true net neutrality was enforced, then there would be no caching boxes for Google,Facebook or Netflix and they would have to rely on public peering with the congestion that comes with.

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Re:Wehe – Check Your ISP for Net Neutrality Violations by specialist on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:20PM (#25876503)
> This is a seprate issue from what most people see as net neutrality.

Exactly.

It really feels like the debate over "net neutrality" is conflating multiple issues.

I kinda get the ISP biz model. Overprovisioning and so forth.

I have no clue about the backbone biz model. How the transit fees work. I want the ELI5 (Ray Dalio, Courtney Love) covering how broadband works. What the basics? Who's screwing who? How companies deal with each other. How they deal with content publishers like Netflix, TikTok, etc.

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