Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router

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The US government is urging a total ban on a popular Wi-Fi router due to security concerns, sparking debate among users about the implications and potential alternatives.

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Bender

2 months ago

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The first time I heard discussion of this with no credible reasons I stocked up on many TP-Link layer 2 switches and several TP-Link access points. I have them all behind a firewall and I only allow the AP's to talk directly outbound when I choose to update the firmware. I have yet to see it attempt to dial home without my prompting it to and I have always been able to download firmware updates. The reason I stocked up is that TP-Link thus far have had the best result negotiating and maintaining proper speed and duplex on long cable runs. I have been quite happy with them. If A USA based company can make something as reliable I will switch to them assuming they have been brutally tested by many others with very custom setups. I have tested many AP's and switches over the years.

Am I the only person here that puts the AP behind a dedicated firewall with its own dedicated LAN/Subnet?

m463

2 months ago

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I've used tp-link routers, but installed and run openwrt.

Bender

2 months ago

I contemplated seeing if openwrt would run on them but was just lazy enough not to. I have enough spares I really should do that at some point and see if that has any change on the awesome negotiation reliability. That is a good idea.

tiberious726

2 months ago

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Anything with an sfp slot and a decent "optic" should blow tp-link's link stability out of the water. In about the same price range, have you tried mikrotik?

Bender

2 months ago

have you tried mikrotik?

That is one I have not tried. Looks like its HQ is in Latvia. The GPERx6 looks interesting. I might give them a try. That RDS2216 also looks interesting. 20 U.2 NVMe storage slots. Nice...

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