[TacticalCoder]

> ... you’ll need to purchase an AS and become a BGP-peering sovereign citizen cutting deals with backbone networks

Which is doable as an individual. One of my very best mate did just that: granted he's got quite the networking skills but he did that entirely on his own.

He'll even get 256 IPv4 addresses but for these he was put on a long waiting list (I think in one to two months he'll get them but he's waiting since about a year): IPv4 addresses are the actual scarce landlordy Internet resources!

[201984]

Your buddy probably still has to pay for internet exchange with the backbones, they only give it for free if you're also a tier 1 ISP (i.e. see Lumen's requirements[1] and the others'[2]). Even massive ISPs like Comcast still have to pay for internet access[3] because they're not big enough to be a "peer" to the tier 1s.

PS. I think you're shadowbanned since this and your last 7 comments all showed up as [dead].

[1]: https://www.lumen.com/en-us/about/legal/peering-policy.html

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network#List_of_Tier_1_...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network#Other_major_net...