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Contracts & Switching

Provider Lock-In Through Bundled Hardware and How to Escape It

One household tries to leave and discovers that the television box, the mesh units and the phone handset all have to go…

Nicholas Burnham 6 min read

Home Networking

When Your Router, Not Your Provider, Is the Bottleneck

One household complains for three months and eventually changes provider, and the fault follows them. Another household replaces a six-year-old router and…

Nicholas Burnham 6 min read