How much is gigabit Internet access in your home worth to you?
If you live in San Francisco, it may be worth $4,000. For starters.
Internet service provider MonkeyBrains says it can deliver home Internet access at speeds of up to 1 Gbps, or 10 times as fast as Comcast, for anyone willing to pony up and help fund an Indiegogo campaign.
Providing that at least 100 people donate.
Business Insider notes that a $2,500 donation will get donors a connection of up to 500 megabits per second. Some lucky and well-heeled Internet-seekers can get speeds of up to 700 megabits per second with a $4,000 payment.
MonkeyBrains is also asking donors to consider donating "double a link cost" to fund links in areas with "lower median incomes." Because, don't forget, there's a serious "digital divide": along with everything else, poorer areas have less than rich areas when it comes to Internet access.
