I’ve had tplink forever and recently got a netgear to put openwrt on it. It’s pretty cool
I love my Toilet Paper-Link router. It’s the only one I’ve ever owned that didn’t start randomly losing the internet connection after two years. I don’t know why every router starts acting up like that; I’ve had issues with literally every brand except this one.
I can’t wait to get a hold of a bunch of cheap TP Link routers. Those things run OpenWRT like champs.
I don’t care if China steals my data or uses my router as a vector for a DOS attack at this point. My fascist nation already has domestic back doors to spy on me if I was interesting enough. My opinion of China is roughly the same as my opinion of my own red white and blue shithole, about as low as you can go. In fact, their regular people on the street seem a hell of a lot more prosocial and EMPATHETIC than I’ve ever seen here in the US going by Rednote. I’m on nobody’s side geopolitically because nobody is on my side.
Besides, we destroyed ourselves already. Checkmate CCP! Have fun spying on the ash heap. Spoilers: we’re largely poorly educated here by design, so enjoy the stream of "…evolution is just a theory science is fake education is a scam pull yourself by your bootstraps stop virtue signaling it’s not greed I’m rationally self-interested… "
In a fucked up way I lol’d at this. If I put on my tinfoil hat I’d say the USA is encouraging China to “spy” on us so they have to absorb the brainrot. Poor bastards
Please yes, I look forward to cheaper routers due to oversupply.
I don’t understand why they’re considering a ban. People should be changing the default password on their router. If they aren’t and they leak information that isn’t theirs, tough shit, fine them. If they leak their own information, let them deal with the consequences.
There are so many people who just don’t get tech though. I was just at my buddy’s patents house, probably early 60s, and they have a random default SSID and password. It’s like 15 digits long. Secure as can be. If they really bothered to type that in on all their devices, I’m thinking they were probably incapable of changing it through the software.
Or they just didn’t know how. Which is a distinct possibility. Some devices these days even let you share the Wi-Fi password through QR code or similar. So you don’t have to enter it until every device.
Every single consumer SOHO router is just a data mining security clusterfuck these days, brand is irrelevant. The only way to really get away from it is to run your own SBC or NUC with a wifi card and shit.
OpenWRT?
Key word: consumer. You won’t find a single router on store shelves that the layman is not getting all of their data collected through.
GL.Inet sells routers that run openwrt out of the box. I’m not claiming they’re guaranteed to not be modified to collect data, but just giving an example that there are consumer grade products out there that are better options, you just need to look for them.
They make mini PCs with five Ethernet ports that are perfect for this sort of thing.
Mikrotik is probably OK IMO.
probably, lol. they don’t even support openwrt
And?
what do you base that probably upon?
It’s a European company, they are widely deployed and well regarded.
Their hardware is decent and well priced. I don’t think if anyone else can provide this type of hardware at that price point.
Banning TP-Link routers isn’t going to do a damn thing to solve the problem of insecure routers, SOHO or otherwise. Too many people and companies set shit up and then ignore it until it breaks and under these conditions routers are always going to become insecure given a long enough timeline.
Fire up Shodan and see how many discontinued Cisco ASAs are out there. Hell you can probably still find some Cisco PIX boxes even though they went away nearly twenty years ago! Those aren’t people doing that, those are COMPANIES.
The problem here isn’t the brand or even the silicon that brand uses. It’s with the utter lack of management (including EoL replacement) by the people using the damn things.
His economic moves will devalue the US Dollar and put it at risk as a reserve currency. Who is gonna step in? China.
China doesn’t want to become the world currency, but they do want a BRICS currency. This will take years, though.
Should we worry? About Trump’s reciprocal tariffs which are going to plunge the world into the greatest recession since the 1930’s, Trump breaking the post war Western alliance and making partner of Putin’s Russa, or Trump dismantling of the Constitutional underpinnings of all American juris prudence? Oh, you’re talking about some fucking router.
I buy a lot of TP-Link switches because they are cheap so please dont
