Can we create a connection to the internet ourselves without having to use a cellular 3g/4g subscription / wifi subscription?
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The short answer is no, you can interconnect any number of computers together you own and control, that would be called an ‘intranet’. You could connect to your friend’s network and then that would be more *like* an internet.
When we talk about ‘the internet’, we are talking about the mixture of agreed upon protocols (BGP, DNS) which all people agree to use fairly and a physical connection to other networks under the same agreement which is controlled by a number of international NGOs.
For example, you could wire a parallel ‘internet’, set up a root DNS system, and set up your own BGP AS numbers. Hell, we do it in labs all the time, it isn’t that hard. But, the minute you wanted to connect to the wider internet, you come under the control of the before mentioned NGOs. When you do want to connect to the wider internet, almost all of the time you will connect through a tier(whatever) provider, so an ATT, Verizon, CenturyLink, Comcast, in the USA. In Germany it would be Deutsche Telekom or someone.
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