(fictional) what router would you suggest to a low middle income person looking for a router that just got out of college in Vermont?
(fictional) what router would you suggest to a low middle income person looking for a router that just got out of college in Vermont?
the non existent person has 4 key things
- he has 50k
- he is in sort of a sony ecosystem (ps5,sonytv, PlayStation vue,sony phone,sony camera and a sony radio)
- the max for the internet he will pay for is $325
- he lives on the second story of a 3 story apartment building
me: ofc calyx institute unlimited data thing or mabye at&t fiber internet
Sorry, totally off-topic, I know, but… you’re willing to pay what for internet?
I live in Germany. We‘re famous for having horrible high speed availability. But where it’s available, we can get 1 Gbit/s for the equivalent of 50 USD.
For what it’s worth, I’m in the US and just as confused by the $325 pricepoint for internet as well.
The US had the world's best internet in the 1990's and by god we still have it. Gigabit internet is not available in a lot of places. And the internet which is available is usually slow, expensive and has shit service. Until late last year, I was paying $80/month for 25mbps download speeds. I'm now on a 5G based service for $25/month, but the service can get spotty some days. I'd kill for gigabit service at $50/month.
Dunno where they're living but my dad lives in an eastern German "suburb" (which irl is just a 500 ppl village that happens to be within a 15km radius of a bigger city) and gets 1000GB/s through fiber optic whilst paying about 50 EUR. So maybe they meant 1k GB/s, they're just living in no man's land or German broadband prices vary dramatically.