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It's a holdover from the old days, when one side of a peering agreement very logically didn't want to carry all the packets of another provider while the other
by danielweber 12y ago
It's a holdover from the old days, when one side of a peering agreement very logically didn't want to carry all the packets of another provider while the other provider doesn't do much to help you in return.
- rbanffy 12y agoIt would make sense in a completely p2p world - at the end, I receive and transmit roughly equal amounts of data - and I am billed accordingly on my end only for the traffic I send, despite generating some cost for the receiving end. This is not the case with ISPs - you get billed for everything. In the old phone world where this started, it'd be like you having to pay to receive calls as well as making them.