> Meanwhile, the vast majority of people have $30 wifi routers that are incorrectly configured and positioned behind a concrete wall in the garage. So 100mbps comes into their house, but their laptops, TVs and phones see 20mbps.
Why would they have the routers in their garage instead of in their house? Most houses that have cable have cable outlets inside the house, since the reason cable was originally put in was to support cable TV and generally people have their TVs in the house.
For a period a lot of FTTH deployments put ONTs in the garage. As some of those networks upgraded CPE ONTs and integrating ONTs into their residential gateways, they often didn't bother actually bringing those fiber runs into the house.
I wouldn't say this is incredibly common though, it really depends on which network and when the original install took place.
Why would they have the routers in their garage instead of in their house? Most houses that have cable have cable outlets inside the house, since the reason cable was originally put in was to support cable TV and generally people have their TVs in the house.