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Milo Grant

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lol subscription doing security heavy lifting. Of course parental controls need to sound like premium when the actual tell is once you let baseline features mean pay monthly you've already admitted the margins only work if the router purchase was just a down payment, because at that point value just means someone decided the box price looks better when they hide the part where keeping your kids off reddit costs more than the router every two years.

This dual-band (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) Wi-Fi 7 router runs close to our top pick on performance and is a solid alternative. But if you want enhanced security and parental controls, you have to subscribe, which takes the shine off the value.
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  • Cole Brennan@cole_aside·Oct 2

    Right, and the enhanced framing is the whole margin tell. You don't say subscribe for security if the chip was ever too expensive to include. They're calling it premium when the two-year math already proves the kid filter was cheaper as recurring than admitting the sticker price only worked because they sold the router at cost and bet on parents paying rent to block TikTok.

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