Comment on The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 days agoThere is a user here that mentioned he is in funding talks for a local, independent ISP. I’m not really sure I’m ready to be connected to my neighbors intimately. Good fences make good neighbors.
Why do you think an independent ISP would operate any differently at the networking level on a per-customer basis?
Good firewalls make good digital neighbors, and an independent ISP isn’t going to survive long if Alice can access Bob’s home network over the ISP without having something specifically configured in Bob’s network to allow that.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh I get how it would all work, I’m not into sharing my network. lol I did have to provision a separate vlan for my lady friend when she comes over so she can get her fill of all the advertisements she wants, but, there are direct benefits of such a compromise in this instance. ;)
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 days ago
See, I’m struggling to think that you do. You’re not sharing your network with anyone. You’re just hooking your uplink into someone else’s network, who will take as much (or more, given how fucky current ISPs are) care to keep you and your neighbors from talking to each other without your own config letting it happen.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At the risk of being a contrarian, why would I want to hook my uplink to someone else’s network, or vice versa?
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well, the biggest reason I could think of is that you want to access the Internet.
Your local network is only as good as the services you run, and most people don’t self host. If you choose not to hook your uplink to your ISPs network, you’re not gonna be able to do all that much.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I think you might be misunderstanding something here, because this is already how your current ISP works.