Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to HardwareEnglish · 8 days ago7x increase in memory costs fueling price increases in ISP-provided routers, gateways, and set-top boxes — home fiber rollouts may slow, and installations could become more expensivewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up193arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up193arrow-down1external-link7x increase in memory costs fueling price increases in ISP-provided routers, gateways, and set-top boxes — home fiber rollouts may slow, and installations could become more expensivewww.tomshardware.comRekall Incorporated@piefed.socialM to HardwareEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square7linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBrkdncrlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·8 days agoThis could have been avoided somewhat. ISPs abandon working equipment all of the time. At the moment i have a few routers and other goodies from windstream and lumen that they didn’t want back.
minus-squarein_my_honest_opinion@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoThis is often done when a community starts up their own ISP. Lookup Municipal Fiber Rollout. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=municpal+fiber+rollout&chip-select=search
This could have been avoided somewhat. ISPs abandon working equipment all of the time. At the moment i have a few routers and other goodies from windstream and lumen that they didn’t want back.
This is often done when a community starts up their own ISP. Lookup Municipal Fiber Rollout.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=municpal+fiber+rollout&chip-select=search