Who Is An Isp's Isp's Isp ?

[Evil Gemini]

I have always wondered about this.

who is my isp's isp and even then, who is their isp ??

Like, is their one big huge isp for other isp's ???

[muchspl2]

you can't be serious

[Evil Gemini]

Originally posted by muchspl2@24 December 2003 - 08:18
you can't be serious

Yeah man i am

I want to know ??

[muchspl2]

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

servers

[Evil Gemini]

M8, i know how a bloody server works.

Im just a bit confused on who provides the internet for the ISP's you and i have.

[sparsely]

it's really about who owns the lines & towers...

I used to have a good link about it...can't find it now.

[Samurai]

Originally posted by Evil Gemini@24 December 2003 - 06:50
M8, i know how a bloody server works.

Im just a bit confused on who provides the internet for the ISP's you and i have.

Ok, in the UK there is one major telephone company... BT (British Telecom) which cover roughly 70% of the UK mainland.

There are also another 2 cable companies, called NTL (My ISP) and Telewest which cover roughly 15% each.

Now, I don't care if someone posts a reply to this saying there's another company called 'bigpimpinabc' that has it's own lines etc... I'm willing to put money on the fact they're renting BT's lines.

This is basically how it works... cable companies make their money direct, hardly ever leasing their lines out. Non-cable companies such as BT not only sell it direct, but lease the lines out to other providers (or ISP's if you will) such as Freeserve, Tiscali, Virgin, plus.net & Demon. This is why you see in the Terms & Conditions, you'll see 'Must have a BT connection'.

Hope this helps.

[Robert00000]

What the hell, all this ISP talk has inspired me to create my own damn wireless network.

I'm thinking of hooking all my friends up to my own wireless private network where we can exchange DVD's we've copied ,

Anyone know any suppliers of cheap transmitters in the UK?


By the way I'm the ISP's ISP. All the internet traffic in the world goes through my pocket calculator :teehee:


Merry Christmas :beerchug:

[wenze1]

[I.am]

Crap!


http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet...astructure1.htm