Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes

Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by Pxtl on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:57PM (#21549211)

God damn. I'm disappointed because I went through a series of awful routers (TP-Link, D-Link, Netgear) and the Asus one is the first thing that actually works well. I've got some other Asus hardware I'm really happy with, so I was starting to warm up to them.

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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by tracker1 on Friday November 15, 2019 @06:09PM (#21549676)

I was pretty happy with several Asus routers. Tomato firmware worked on them. After the FCC pushed mfgs to block third party firmware, it wasn't so good... my current higher end Linksys is ok, but will probably go Ubiquity next round when Wifi 6 (ax) becomes more common for actual devices.

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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by jotm on Saturday November 16, 2019 @06:47AM (#21552178)

Routers at least are easy-ish to pick. I just look up the specs of the chipset inside that specific revision of the model (yeah, bit of a pain), and make sure it works with OpenWRT or some other custom firmware. Stock firmware often doesn't even use all the features (although some have the opposite problem, due to closed source chipset drivers, like Broadcom's HW accelerated NAT).

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