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0 pointszero_intp11y ago0 comments

Free just doesn't buy enough transit; they are not a tier 1 provider.

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The 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.

Free 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.

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seszett11y ago

The 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.

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