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It would be nice if municipal fiber just provided a dumb "layer 2" pipe to some nearby PoP where you could shop around for an ISP who knows how the internet wor
by p1mrx 6y ago
It would be nice if municipal fiber just provided a dumb "layer 2" pipe to some nearby PoP where you could shop around for an ISP who knows how the internet works. Basically the dialup model, but 10000X faster. Then municipalities wouldn't have to worry about stuff like IP addressing and DMCA notices.
The main disadvantage is that packets to your neighbors need to hairpin through the PoP instead of staying local, but that's probably not a big deal for residential traffic.
- iptrans 6y agoLight travels more than a 100 miles per millisecond, so as long as the POP is within a few hundred miles you are good. Tromboning local traffic isn’t much of an issue anyway since very little of your traffic is hyper local. Most of your traffic will be going to CDNs and other ISPs.