Modred189

Hi Michael!

Thanks for your comment. I know that in the past we stopped working with Volta because of the fulfillment issues they were having. When they reached out to us earlier this year regarding sponsorships, they seemed to have taken care of the past issues with fulfillment. I have reached out to them for more comments on these issues.
 
I've also reached out to them with your specific case of the cables not working and the experience you had dealing with their support team

For now I've put their upcoming spots on hold until we clear up these concerns. I'll keep you posted when I hear back from them!

Thanks, and happy to help. I lurk enough, but still love the community. I'm just sensitive to companies like Mine because they may claim to help individuals (they can't under the law) but extort companies like mine.
 
But I respect your position. Your house, your rules! 😁

Hey there!
 
Thanks for bringing this up. While I can't speak for PrivacyBee or PrivacyHawk, Mine does not charge anything for their service, which you can read here in their TOS. If Mine ends up going the paid route, then I will have a discussion with our team and theirs on what the future of sponsoring LTT or other channels look like.
 
Mine is also very transparent in how they connect to your email accounts and outlines what they do on their transparency page. At the end of the day, it is up to the individual on whether or not they want to use services like these.
 
I do appreciate your concerns and thanks again for bringing this to our attention.
 
Cheers,

Yea, the chicken and the egg scenario is real here. That and the perceived complexity of NAS systems resulting in reliance on cloud storage. 
 
It just seems like 2.5G tech would be a big selling point, given the wifi speed races, and there being so little price competition is disappointing.

I don't think OP was suggesting that IoT's bandwidth should cause 2.5gb switches to be lower price or higher adoption.
 
Rather, the point is more like "Hey there's a bunch of other tech that uses networking that has gotten much cheaper over time - So why hasn't a similar trend happened with networking with ports over 2.5gbps?"
 
Absent someone from a big consumer networking company actually providing an answer from a holistic industry insider perspective and not an armchair analyst outsider, I suppose what we're left with is that the use cases for 2.5gbps aren't large among consumers and cost of whatever is needed to support 2.5 (the ports, switching throughput, etc).
 
Its tough to look at from an enthusiast/power user perspective because we can think of a bunch of use cases, but we have no idea how many people actually apply to the use cases: NAS, supporting backhaul to wifi 5 or higher, not bottlenecking 1gbps or higher internet, etc.
 
Its interesting to contrast that with the theory that there's not enough 2.5gb usage/demand, because if that theory were true, then 2.5gbps ports in laptops & mobos would have to lead before cheaper 2.5gb switches - Not necessarily at the same time.