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Do residential ISPs really have roughly balanced peering agreements? That doesn't compute to me.. aren't most residential connections super asymmetrical?
by abalone 12y ago
Do residential ISPs really have roughly balanced peering agreements? That doesn't compute to me.. aren't most residential connections super asymmetrical?
- PeterisP 12y agoYes, residential connections are supper asymmetrical both in capabilities and their usage, but residential ISPs don't have "roughly balanced peering agreements" because they don't have peering agreements at all. If most of your traffic is residential, then you're not a peer, then you're a subscriber - residental ISPs have to pay others for their Internet access. Verizon has also a valid transit&peering infrastructure, but if we would be looking at their residential business separately, then it would have to pay for the customer<>Netflix traffic on their interconnections.