Coz they bought el prez a lot of crypto?
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They were going to have to let someone through; the US doesn’t manufacture networking equipment…
$omething tell$ me there are a few rea$on$ it could be….
But I may be wrong.
You’re not.
I have no proof, but you’re not wrong.
Is it because of the massive,massive amount of corruption and bribery that has exploded over the last 2 years
Because that would make sense as why
Insider trading
Or bribery. Though with this administration, probably both.
And a government backdoor.
I think this is the primary reason. I think everyone should prepare to build your own router with upcycled older computers.
Now that I think of it, I wonder if this is why TrueNAS closed sourced their build scripts.
Yeah, ding ding ding, this answer.
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Paul Krugman pointed out that opaque approval processes are fertile ground for corruption.
This and their abysmal support are two very good reasons to never use netgear again
So I have a TP-Link that can’t be flashed with OpnWrt/ddwrt/pfsense. What can I do to harden my router?
Disconnect it
Honestly I just bought a small mini PC and installed Linux on it — that’s my router. I got sick of consumer trash anyway and decided to roll my own. The mini PC is overkill, you can get by very modest hardware.
… Has anyone attempted to turn an old android smart phone into a router?
I do have an old laptop, and I could install OPNSense on it, though I’m not sure if it has a second NIC card, which seems to be a requirement for running any router software on a PC. Please correct me if I’m wrong, tho.
Yeah that’s kind of the downside. I considered using a Raspberry Pi but it felt weird to use its Ethernet port alongside some micro USB → Ethernet adapter that probably wouldn’t hit 1 Gbps anyway.
Ah, so it just needs another ethernet port, if I understand you correctly? So an ethernet adapter would work?
I used an USB Ethernet adapter on my OPNSense setup and it wasn’t stable enough. It basically required a reboot every other day. A PCI-E ethernet card solved my stability issues. Just my experience.
