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.
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.
I think you’re mixing up your units… 1000 GB/s would be enough for a whole data center.
Tru dat, I meant, 1 GB/s or 1000 MB/s.
Thanks for pointing that out ^^
Still not quite. It’s 1 Gbit/s („gigabit“) not 1 GB/s („gigabyte“) which is a factor of eight apart. Marketing departments often obscure this by writing 1 Gb/s which is technically a valid way of writing one gigabit per second but very misleading. I‘ve never seen an ISP advertising in byte-based units and why would they? To the untrained eye they would look like they’re eight times slower than the competition.
Ah my bad, tbh I do know this but I kinda forgot that bc I’m a bit stressed out lately hence my late and hasty replies
Anyways tysm for getting it right ^^
What you might be referring to is an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and less likely a router. They kind of work together but are different.
$325?!
Fucking what? For that you could get 10G fiber, but WWHHYYY?
I have a literal server rack in my laundry room running proxmox hypervisor and multiple self-hosted services, and even at that I only have 1G service and feel like I’m getting anally raped paying $110/mo for that.
And what new college grad has $50k to drop on a router, of all things?
Starlink and an LTE connection has me around this price point.
You are being ripped off, 10g sonic is like $60.
There are better ones out there, but this is a solid option.
Uhhm, doesn’t one get a router after subscribing to an ISP’s (Interner service provider’s) internet offer? Those always worked for me
i guess so
T-mobile 5g gateway works really well in most places. Takes care of router, modem, and internet. My ping is generally around 40.
