finitud labs research network

A one-person research network in León, Spain, holds the same class of routing resources as a national carrier: a globally unique autonomous system number, four IPv6 blocks from four separate supply chains, and a /24 of amateur-radio address space older than the commercial internet. The cash cost of the whole arrangement, assembled from published tariffs, lands near what a Spanish gym charges for a year. This piece uses that network — finitud labs research network, the visible edge of a registry record created in May 2024 — to price the hobbyist tier of European internet infrastructure: what it costs, who supplies it, what the buyers get for their money, and where the line runs between a laboratory and a business.