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(fictional) what router would you suggest to a low middle income person looking for a router that just got out of college in Vermont? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you're mixing up your units... 1000 GB/s would be enough for a whole data center.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tru dat, I meant, 1 GB/s or 1000 MB/s.

Thanks for pointing that out ^^

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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 ^^