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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by ryandrake on Monday April 16, 2018 @10:41AM (#16849279)
You can buy these things for $15. How much rigorous design, care, and quality testing do you think they get? To these companies, “software” is just a line on the BOM, like a screw or plastic piece. It’s something you source as cheaply as possible and pour into the product as the last step in the assembly line.

It’s amazing that these devices even work.

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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by outworlder on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:19PM (#16852332)
True.

But you can get Mikrotik routers for about $50, which are great. Also you can choose to have a dedicated router with no wireless, and have a dumb access point dealing with the wireless part. However, ordinary consumers won't bother.

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