Where do internet providers get the internet they’re providing?
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They are just connecting you to the internet. Imagine you are a capillary in like your finger. Your internet provider is the vein or artery that connects you to the main arteries in your body. Your ISP is just a bridge. If you wanted you could connect to those arteries directly, but you’d literally have to build a line that far, and directly connect to the artery. The line itself isn’t cheap. And as a single user like you the arteries are going to charge you to access the internet through them. Bigger companies can ignore this charge because they have sharing agreements.
Theoretically you could just build your own line directly into amazon servers or whatever website you wanted to access. But you’d have to do this for every single website you wanted.
And believe it or not, sometimes that happens when the absolute fastest speeds are demanded by a consumer who wants direct access.
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