I LOVE THIS COMMENT!
Seriously, because it shows a fundamental lack of understanding of 1) how ISP connections work 2) how to manage concurrent connections by multiple computers on a local network 3) how to select the right hardware 4) the nature and behaviour of local IP traffic.
You are completely entitled to your own opinions, but I recommend that you keep them to yourself, because they are a serious tell on your understanding. Not understanding is fine, but proclimating to the world makes you sound ignorant.
Here's something that will make you think that I'm really cheap.
I don't even pay $50/month. I pay $30/month for a 7.5mbps line. I charge each tenant $6/month. Yes that's right, I make $42 to pay for a $30 line. Nobody is forced it sign up with me. They're more than welcome to sign up for their own line.
Are there limitations? Yes.
Can you torrent with 1000's of connections and max speed ALL the time? NO. (Although that would crash any router in a second)
Can you stream netflix (when there are more than 3 people watching netflix) at speeds faster than 2mbps? NO
Is web surfing slow when someone else is torrenting irresponsibly? Nope, in fact, bad torrenting gets that person shut down.
So is that cheap? Sure, by your standards. When the internet is slow, what do you do? Well of course, pay more for a faster speed. Faster speed solves all problems right? Let's just throw more money at it. Go ahead, but FYI, there's a $60 difference between what you pay, and what I pay.
Now, I'm not a total bastard. I've told people that they could get a better 25mbps connection for, get this, a whole dollar fifty a month ZERO people wanted to pay more. For some reason, they are stuck with only wanting to pay six dollars a month for some apparent reason, surfing totally fine, watching netflix in SD, torrenting capped at 2mbps is something is fine for them for six dollars a month
I think I'm being frugal, and they're cheap. But telling someone their internet costs could rize 25% is some sort of a shock to their system.
So yeah, I don't need to split to be frugal. I split because I don't need 95% of the pipe that comes into my house and to not sell it off is like buying a bunch of bananas and letting it rot on the top of the fridge.
And in doing so, i'm not denying myself any 'better' experience. In fact my connection racks up about 800gb/month, 300gb of which is just me. All for -$12/month.