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It is a little disconcerting that Foxconn (subject to deep Chinese government overreach) will now own Linksys
Also fun fact, nearly all routers use the same chips from Boardcom. The majority of differences between routers is just firmware and packaging, the guts are all the same.
It is a little disconcerting that Foxconn (subject to deep Chinese government overreach) will now own Linksys
Foxconn is Taiwanese like Asus, Acer, Gigabyte, MSI, MediaTek, D-Link, and HTC. Both Asus and D-Link are major router makers as well. Also fun fact, nearly all routers use the same chips from Boardcom. The majority of differences between routers is just firmware and packaging, the guts are all the same.
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Foxconn is Taiwanese like Asus, Acer, Gigabyte, MSI, MediaTek, D-Link, and HTC. Both Asus and D-Link are major router makers as well. Also fun fact, nearly all routers use the same chips from Boardcom. The majority of differences between routers is just firmware and packaging, the guts are all the same.
It's a RoC
Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Strait_relations
It is a little disconcerting that Foxconn (subject to deep Chinese government overreach) will now own Linksys
Foxconn is Taiwanese like Asus, Acer, Gigabyte, MSI, MediaTek, D-Link, and HTC. Both Asus and D-Link are major router makers as well. Also fun fact, nearly all routers use the same chips from Boardcom. The majority of differences between routers is just firmware and packaging, the guts are all the same.
The firmware is the part you really have to worry about, though. But the proper solution is to simply never run the vendor's firmware on a consumer grade router, because none of them are any good at assembling and securing a Linux distribution.
The only good Belkin product I have ever seen is their 12 outlet power strip. As a network engineer everything they make with an Ethernet/wifi interface is complete shit. But this is not really news, D-Link, Netgear, many of their competitors are also junk.
It is a little disconcerting that Foxconn (subject to deep Chinese government overreach) will now own Linksys
I stopped buying linksys products a long time ago. Moved on to Netgear and Asus. But, doesn't Foxconn already manufacture a bunch of American products?
It is a little disconcerting that Foxconn (subject to deep Chinese government overreach) will now own Linksys
Foxconn is Taiwanese like Asus, Acer, Gigabyte, MSI, MediaTek, D-Link, and HTC. Both Asus and D-Link are major router makers as well. Also fun fact, nearly all routers use the same chips from Boardcom. The majority of differences between routers is just firmware and packaging, the guts are all the same.
The only good Belkin product I have ever seen is their 12 outlet power strip. As a network engineer everything they make with an Ethernet/wifi interface is complete shit. But this is not really news, D-Link, Netgear, many of their competitors are also junk.
The worst router I’ve ever seen was a D-Link. I was in a position where I had to provide support for it, and in the end I gave up and bought them an ASUS with my own money. It ended up being worth it, just in terms of time and aggravation saved. The software and firmware on the D-Link were garbage, and so was the actual build.
After a brief romance with VyOS and RPi based APs, Ubiquiti came along and swept me off my feet
Currently using their gear throughout a 300-ish person office. Easy to setup, no issues that weren’t our fault in the first place.
Great kit for startup and growing type situations