dumdum666

Can’t you ask your university library to order the newest versions?

If you are willing to join a German cooperative, you could (German language only):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostsharing

They are quite expensive though.

https://www.hostsharing.net/downloads/hostsharing-brutto-preisliste.pdf

You are only talking about backbone capacity - the consumer usually still has shitty Internet because our politicians wanted it so. This has more to do with strategic errors and enabling that extremely large corporation with a T in its name to exploit the shit out of copper.

Good time to switch to Kbin I guess

You know how much the markup in a business (physical goods) is usually? We are talking about 100-300% markup.