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		seszett on May 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Observations of an Internet Middleman 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.

zero_intp on May 6, 2014 [–]

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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