Wow, this is frightening. I've heard rumors that Internet providers actually make money selling Internet bandwidth. They even make money moving packets betwee

Wow, this is frightening. I've heard rumors that Internet providers actually make money selling Internet bandwidth. They even make money moving packets between two ports on the same switch!!! The thieves!!! I've also heard rumors of peering arrangements between organizations that don't charge each other for Internet bandwidth. Why won't someone subsidize my Internet connection? Can I get someone to pay for the maintenance of my circuit? Tech support? And the bandwidth too? (yeah and the taxes and monopoly rates, that's an entirely different matter) I have something of value I can barter in return. Let me think about this for a second... no, I don't have connectivity to other parts of the Internet, and I don't think my ISP would trust me anyway. Hmm... maybe, I could do something useful for someone else, get paid, and take some of that and pay my Internet provider for service?