Our guests this hour:

Stephan Thaerigen, Head of Sales - VDE Global Services

Mandy Liu, Events Planner - Miji

Steven in Pinehurst, North Carolina listens on NewsRadio 680 WPTF and asked: "VPNs - are the all the same? Why do some charge virtually nothing and others are close to $100? Is there a difference in the quality of the VPN service? What can you tell me?"

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Steven, no they’re not all the same.

VPN vary depending on a lot of factors including the target audience and the technical specs.

For example, there are streaming VPN that are marketed at people who want to access streaming services in other countries, VPNs to get around restrictions like China's famous firewall, VPNs centered in privacy, etc.

For example, privacy-centered VPNs based in the US are less appealing to customers and may have to offer cheaper prices because the US has far weaker privacy protections that other countries, logless VPNs are more popular than those that keep logs and may charge more, streaming-centric VPNs tend to cost more money because they need to be high speed and high data while many time needing to change IPs regularly to avoid falling into blacklists.

Different VPNs have different users and different advantages, but they are not by any means all the same.

Joe in Durham, North Carolina listens on NewsRadio 680 WPTF and asked: "Whatever happened to Google Cable? I remember when they were making a big deal about it in the Raleigh/Durham area a few years ago, but haven't really heard anything about Google Cable since."

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Joe, do you mean Google Fiber?

If so, Google Fiber is still around. It still only serves a handful of cities and with some restrictions, for example in places like Chicago and Miami it only serves apartments, in other places like Atlanta and Austin it serves others as well.

They still offer free internet in public housing, and their gigabit plan otherwise costs around $70/month, which is not bad but not too unlike the competition these days.

They don’t seem to be expanding much, so they may be happy with their current footprint. The purpose of Google Fiber was likely more than just giving gigabit access to random cities, so whatever Google was trying to accomplish with it, it looks like they may think that they have.

There are lots of options for gigabit and other fast speeds these days so it may not be worth their investment anymore.

Mark in Windsor, Ontario listens on AM800 CKLW "The Information Station" and asked: "How do I know if it's my router or my modem that's causing issues because I have some devices that work and some say "connected" but no internet."

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Mark, if some work and some don’t, it’s your router. The routing a router does is in part routing internet requests back to ...