Perhaps, but I (network engineer at an ISP) haven't heard anything like that, an...

astrodust · on June 2, 2016

Comcast has as few peerings as they can legally get away with. Redundancy isn't high on their list of things to care about, apparently.

jlgaddis · on June 3, 2016

> ... as they can legally get away with.

Can you clarify a bit? I'm not sure what you mean.

An ISP isn't, by law, required to peer with anyone.

astrodust · on June 4, 2016

If they didn't peer with anyone they'd be a closed network and it would be illegal to advertise that as "internet access".

They're legally required to live up to the claims of their product. If they say X Mbit/s then there needs to be at least a plausible case made that they can achieve those results. Anything significantly less is to invite a class-action lawsuit.