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What the TP-Link Ban in the US Means for You

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Check out Microtik hardware (Latvia), it’s good and reasonably priced. No association, i just like it. https://mikrotik.com/

I second to that. Had plenty of issues with other routers, after switch there was no issues at all in the last 3 years

Microtik is my preferred prosumer networking hardware. Much prefer it to the ubiquity gear I’ve used.

love my mikrotik hex s.

Having used a TP-Link ethernet over power device in the past, this is quite concerning. Most devices like this do not have an adequate replacement from domestic or allied manufacturers. Is there no government agency examining and reporting on these frequently purchased electronics?

Netgear is a US based company that makes Ethernet over power adapters.

I doubt they actually make them in the US though.

powerline adapters don't have any network access do they? just a layer 1/1.5 device and that's it?

I'm not criticizing the content of the post, but it feels like it was written by a LLM. Does anyone else notice that? It screams it to me.

It’s the verbosity that indicates LLM to me … put the time in and give me the shorter letter

The bullet-pointed "summaries" and "conclusions" are a hallmark of ChatGPT output as well.

Thank you for sharing this feedback, I'm sure they will do it better next time. :)

I think dang should add this specific example of AI to guidelines, in point "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, AI content or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

AI slop is hardly a "tangential annoyance". It's central to the content (or lack thereof) of the post.

AI written content should really be banned. I don't want to read content from a bot I want to read content from a human.

It only mentions routers and not APs. I am extremely pleased with my tp-link Omada WiFi setup with self hosted controller in a docker image. after over a decade using mikrotik and ubiquiti products I don’t think I would go back for WiFi, and I would certainly be inclined to give a tp link router a look if it’s as polished and capable as their WiFi products.

TP Link “ which dominate approximately 65% of the U.S. router market for small businesses and homes (Allconnect)”

This appear to be more about protecting US market share and less about national security. Netgear/linksys etc cannot compete with price against TP Link.

And no BYD cars!

Discussion (174 points, 25 days ago, 245 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451130

Funnily enough many TP-Link models are really well supported by alternative firmware like openwrt. Totally avoiding this problem.

possible the hardware is compromised

If that's the case, then all the other APs from US and European manufacturers would be affected as well.

Totally?

It means you should buy shares. Because when the ban is removed you'll be rich.

It means I'll be paying more for hardware to reflash with Openwrt, is all.

Yes, the US State Department is working hard on this list to keep you safe and scared, and recommends you use a Taiwanese D-Link NAS instead

Your comment history shows an interesting pattern

That he's anti-establishment or anti-west, exactly the type of person who would make such a comment? I'm not sure how that's supposed to be an interesting observation. It's like being surprised that someone who writes a pro-trump comment also espouses other conservative talking points in their comment history.

Till you check my comment history :)

There is no way a human wrote that.

We should just ban foreign routers. Massachusetts invented routers, why would we import them?

Transistors were invented by the US as well, but then we got outpaced by Taiwan. Does that mean we should stop buying from TSMC as well?

What routers are you recommending?

If importing routers was banned, I’m sure Cisco and juniper would go back to making SMB routers. Juniper routers used to be made in Walnut Creek CA!

We’re not really talking SMB here I think, more home / prosumer level. I’d not expect Cisco or Juniper to go into that market segment.

Maybe Netgear/Mikrotik/Ubiquity/Thompson/D-Link/Frtizbox or someone else would edge in.

Cool, stupid backdoors coming to your smb router soon.

What about exports? do you want to stop those too

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