I'm paying my ISP to maintain a good enough connection to the backbone infrastructure such that I can download what I want. The content providers are paying th

I'm paying my ISP to maintain a good enough connection to the backbone infrastructure such that I can download what I want. The content providers are paying their ISP to maintain a good enough connection to the backbone infrastructure such that they can upload what they want. The content providers ISP is maintaining a good connection, and shunting their packets into the backbone happily. The problem, is my ISP is being a dick and refusing to upgrade their connection. The backbone is dropping my packets because my ISP isn't holding up it's side of the bargain and giving the backbone the connection it needs to offload the traffic I'm requesting. Instead, they want the businesses I request packets from to pay them a toll to deliver those packets. This isn't how the system is supposed to work, but they don't mind breaking everything and pissing everyone off if it means they can put a surcharge on the traffic I request.