[polemic]

Stopped reading at:

> "The ISP is just a dumb pipe to connect the user to a server, nothing more."

What OP means is:

> "Ideally, I would like the ISP to act as a dumb pipe..."

The reality is that ISP's can do whatever the heck they want, subject to the regulatory environment and the level of ignorance of their customers.

ISP's are a lot of things, "dumb" they are not.

[guard-of-terra]

But they really should be since they can't usually bring any useful service over a "vanilla" internet.

Everything they bring is either crap that degrades your experience and is hard to out out or costs you additional money. Non-exclusive if.