that silly network requires you to lock funds up, predicting your spending habit of more then a month. some suggest atleast 10 payments of value to be worth the effort. of getting a good fee per payment vs the open close fee cost

the next thing is they say to guarantee a path to destination you should have 4+ channel(accounts) meaning 4x the expected spend for that time scale.
the next thing is they want you to allocate some of your funds to route other people payments. meaning you dont get to use all your funds so again you need to 2x the value of each channel if you want to offer 50% of liquidity to the routing network

many people find they on average lock up $700 of value. but only able to successfully make payments 100% attempts for values under $16 per payment

if you are looking to make more then 16 a payment and do more then 10 payments before closing the channel then you may need to to lock up and split up more then the multiplier of total liquidity

the silly network is not simple have funds spend funds