Free internet ?

[RTX 3090]

If i change my nameservers to a private one like cloudflare, will i still have to pay my ISP as I am not using their nameservers and my data is not going through them, or am I misunderstanding something

[Levent]

DNS is not what your ISP just provides. Your data will still go through their datacenters, their fiber optic cables, their copper. You got how Internet works quite wrong.

[OddOod]

Yeah. You need a connection to the internet backbone, the ISP serves you that connection over a coaxial cable

[Guest]

Unless you're stealing your neighbor's internet, you'll still have to pay.

[Eigenvektor]

You have to pay your ISP for providing a connection to the internet. Whether you're using their DNS server or that of someone else doesn't matter.

 

DNS is like a phonebook, your computer uses it to resolve host names to IPs. Using a different DNS server doesn't change anything about the connection itself once a service's IP has been resolved.

 

That's a bit like asking whether you still need to pay for phone service, since you used your private phonebook to look up the number to dial.

[RTX 3090]

15 minutes ago, yaboistar said:

hi there, i work for an ISP and i can confirm, without a shadow of a doubt, that this plan is so "epic gamer" that we'd be shutting off your connection because that's literally not how it works. at all. if you want free internet go work for an ISP.

It's not that I am desperate for free internet, I am just wondering as I am switching ISP's and have got to make 5GB of data last me 3 days, so I was thinking if I change my nameservers, would my internet work again

[Eigenvektor]

19 minutes ago, Anonymous015 said:

It's not that I am desperate for free internet, I am just wondering as I am switching ISP's and have got to make 5GB of data last me 3 days, so I was thinking if I change my nameservers, would my internet work again

Your ISP provides the 'physical' connection to the Internet.

 

Everything you do on the Internet first goes through them before it is routed wherever it needs to go. That also includes nameserver lookups.

 

So if they kill your connection you can't connect to anything, including their nameservers and/or those of others.

 

A nameserver is just one possible service on the internet used to resolve host names to IPs, nothing more. It doesn't change anything about the connection on the physical level.

[WkdPaul]

3 hours ago, Anonymous015 said:

It's not that I am desperate for free internet, I am just wondering as I am switching ISP's and have got to make 5GB of data last me 3 days, so I was thinking if I change my nameservers, would my internet work again

No, all of your data has to go through your ISP.

 

I'm confused as to how you think networking works?

 

What is between you and the internet is your ISP, no ISP = no internet.

 

What you're asking is the equivalent of trying to skip the 2 miles of road between you and the highway, so you can save mileage on your car ... that's not possible.

[RTX 3090]

19 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

No, all of your data has to go through your ISP.

 

I'm confused as to how you think networking works?

 

What is between you and the internet is your ISP, no ISP = no internet.

 

What you're asking is the equivalent of trying to skip the 2 miles of road between you and the highway, so you can save mileage on your car ... that's not possible.

Well our company actually uses another companies lines. So I thought maybe the router they give just connects us to their nameservers, but I was wrong. Thanks for explanation