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Your ISP does not give a shit where your packets are going to or where packets directed towards you are coming from. That is the backbones problem, and most ISP
by zanny 12y ago
Your ISP does not give a shit where your packets are going to or where packets directed towards you are coming from. That is the backbones problem, and most ISPs do not manage it at all. For an ISP, it is effectively electricity - the cost to route a packet is always constant, assuming they don't have meterage deals with different backbone routers depending on the destination. To them, they just care where the packet is going, to just send it in the right direction either way. And maybe billing for data usage is a valid business model, but the real world per unit costs of packets are magnitudes lower than the per unit costs of even electricity in traditional measures like kwh. IE, the modern "pricing schema" for data, where a gigabyte costs multiple dollars, is an insanely unrealistic measure - if you are not paying for the wires in the dirt.
- exelius 12y ago> assuming they don't have meterage deals with different backbone routers depending on the destination. That's a big assumption, and an incorrect one at that. Most content delivered to large ISPs is delivered by CDNs over paid interconnects (and it's been that way for a decade or more). They either pay the ISPs directly or for transit at a peering point. > IE, the modern "pricing schema" for data, where a gigabyte costs multiple dollars, is an insanely unrealistic measure - if you are not paying for the wires in the dirt. If you're expecting pricing to be tied to cost, you're gonna have a bad time. That's just not how modern product pricing works for ANY product. You pay as much as the service is worth to you; if it wasn't worth it, you wouldn't pay it.
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