Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by jleahy on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:35PM
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My wife did this, about 6 months of digging up roads in central London. Would recommend. AMA.
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Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by KingFelix on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @02:07PM
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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!
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by jleahy on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @02:23PM
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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).
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by bitcoinmoney on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @04:48PM
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What kind of research did you do to achieve this? Any workshops or did you talk to other ISPs to gain knowledge?
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by moritonal on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @01:03PM
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As a fellow Londerer please please expand on this. Like, why, what were the returns, what'd you peer into?
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by jleahy on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @01:11PM
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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.
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by tinfever on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @02:41PM
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How did you meet your wife with an ASN? Asking for a friend...
Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ...
by jleahy on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @02:45PM
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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’.