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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 p

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.

specialist 6y ago
> 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.