Re:The average consumer loses over $150 a year renting a rou...
by api on Thursday April 30, 2020 @01:29PM
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> Obviously, for the genius technical minds that browse this site, leasing a router that is just pulling basic NAT/DNS/firewall duty is a cardinal sin.
No it's not. I lease one not because I can't figure it out but because I have better things to do than fiddle with my Internet connection and it's cheap. Yes its a ripoff, but not a bad one when I calculate my typical time value vs what I am paying. The hardware they lease (Cox in SoCal) is not too bad. It works, isn't a symmetric NAT (why does symmetric exist?), is fast, is dual band, and IPv6 works.
Same reason I use a Mac and not a Linux laptop. Same reason I don't put a more open OS on my phone. Same reason our company pays a little more for a managed Kubernetes instance at Google instead of rolling our own on bare metal. I could go on.
We are in the age of time poverty. Ease of use wins.
No it's not. I lease one not because I can't figure it out but because I have better things to do than fiddle with my Internet connection and it's cheap. Yes its a ripoff, but not a bad one when I calculate my typical time value vs what I am paying. The hardware they lease (Cox in SoCal) is not too bad. It works, isn't a symmetric NAT (why does symmetric exist?), is fast, is dual band, and IPv6 works.
Same reason I use a Mac and not a Linux laptop. Same reason I don't put a more open OS on my phone. Same reason our company pays a little more for a managed Kubernetes instance at Google instead of rolling our own on bare metal. I could go on.
We are in the age of time poverty. Ease of use wins.