Re:Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam
by fpgeek on Sunday February 23, 2014 @09:14PM
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> This wasn't the case in the 90s, and had Hacker News existed back then ISP startups would have appeared frequently.
Indeed. The late 90s / early 2000s were the golden age of the CLEC. There were certainly pain points (like getting copper pairs provisioned), but I remember not caring that my building didn't support Comcast Internet because I had an SDSL connection from Telocity and an ADSL connection from Speakeasy.
Re:Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam
by tracker1 on Monday February 24, 2014 @11:59AM
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A friend of mine had a pretty nice BBS setup in the early-mid 90's... It took him a dozen requests and 2.5 years to get extra phone lines in. That was definitely a pain point.
Indeed. The late 90s / early 2000s were the golden age of the CLEC. There were certainly pain points (like getting copper pairs provisioned), but I remember not caring that my building didn't support Comcast Internet because I had an SDSL connection from Telocity and an ADSL connection from Speakeasy.