I’ve been very happy with Ubiquity Edgerouters the last few years. Their ER-X model can do 1Gbps total… So if you’re downloading at 500Mbps then you can upload at 500Mbps. It come in about USD 60 I think.

Next level up is the Edgerouter Lite 3. It is much beefier and can easily handle 1Gbps both ways and even faster. It’s just under $100. 99 or so. Maybe you can find it on special.

They are really prosumer and definitely much stabler than typical consumer routers. Eg I haven’t reset mine in more than 2 years.

It’s not open source like mikrotik but they are very hacker and tech use friendly. Most things work via CLI. And most advanced router functions are supported.

What do you want to do? How fast is your internet? 1Gbps fibre requires something much beefier than 50Mbps.

How many servers do you have going? Are people accessing them from outside?

How many people in your household? Are they gamers and need low latency? Heavy streamers? Working from home needing VPNs?

Without this context just look at a pricelist.

Janeway: those are cadet numbers

I only emulate old arcade games so I built the typical arcade sticks and buttons myself into my cabinet.

I had a Commodore 64 and really really wanted an Amiga. Saw all the games for the Amiga and Atari ST in magazines and wept. It wasn’t really available in my country so I didn’t know anyone with one but even if it was available we wouldn’t have been able to afford it.

I was in the UK last month and went to the computer history museum in Cambridge. They have working versions of every single computer and console ever and you can play with them.

It was great nostalgia to use a ZX Spectrum, my trusty VIC-20 and C64 again. But there it was… An Amiga 500. I played a bit and the graphics and sounds still blew me away now in 2023 as a late 40s middle aged man. It was everything I dreamed it would be.

100% recommend.