Yeah it started at $169

It has gone up $30, which isn’t so bad relatively.

Flipper zero.

At the very least it has built-in universal power, volume, channel, and maybe some other buttons. Now that I think about it though, I bet I could make a companion app so your phone acts like the TV remote and sends the signal over the flipper via Bluetooth.

Plus you can store your hotel key, garage remote, and who knows what else in it. It’s a really cool little tool to have.

Yeah (fully agree) but it would point out each of the hops the user goes through before reaching home, yes? I’m just trying to help visualize where all the bottlenecks could be

Apologies for the lack of detail but I want to make sure you know about the tool traceroute. The speed at which you connect depends on every node between your remote location and home, plus there will be some overhead with whatever vpn is involved.