internet speed and routers are controlled by whom

Posted by Ozgun Sunal on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Ozgun Sunal
Published on 2012-06-13T10:02:45Z Indexed on 2012/06/13 10:42 UTC
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i need to learn two things. each is related to other a bit. The first one is, while our LAN speed is usually 100 Mbps or at gigabit levels(very big compared to WAN speeds), WAN speed for instance DSL connections are far less than this. However, we are able to download huge files at those Mb speeds. Isn't this weird? [my real concern is why WAN speed is lower than LAN speeds]

Who controls those routers around the large Internet? (while we, as web clients are connected to Internet, packets travel through those routers to the destination network/s).But, are those routers all inside the ISP network and if not, who controls those large numbers of routers?

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