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Free just doesn't buy enough transit; they are not a tier 1 provider.
by zero_intp 12y ago
Free just doesn't buy enough transit; they are not a tier 1 provider.
- seszett 12y agoThe ISPs in question explicitly aren't tier 1 providers. Free is tier 2, and they are very much behaving like the ISPs the article is talking about, just not with Level 3.
- zero_intp 12y agoFree buys transit, and that transit is full. All the time. The article is talking about settlement free peering. There are significant differences between Free running their uplinks hot and a peering partners running their interconnects hot.