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WHY2025: How to become your own ISP [video]

by exiguus on 8/12/25, 4:53 PM with 61 comments

  • by abound on 8/12/25, 10:54 PM

    I got my own ASN a few months ago (and am in the three+ year waiting list for an IPv4 block), I've been thinking about trying to become a rural ISP in my area, so this is very timely for me.
  • by rmoriz on 8/13/25, 12:36 AM

    LIR and resource fees at RIPE are too damn high compared to ARIN. Europe is hurting itself by punishing small entities.
  • by scottgg on 8/12/25, 7:33 PM

    This is great! I wonder how much the presenters country - the Netherlands - has made this easier with the peering. It’s hard for me to imagine just asking big serious networks to patch you in down here in Switzerland is likely to fly.
  • by Arelius on 8/14/25, 3:14 AM

    Been looking into this for a while myself, very cool. It seems .nl has a lot of resources and support for this sort of thing. Any similar resources like coloclue in the San Francisco Bay Area? It seems confusing to find just a couple of U of rack space in SF that you could peer in and out of?