So you now can be absolutely certain that Netgear is actively and openly giving fascist authoritarians what they want.

At least before you could be fairly certain it was just the secretive three letter guys that roughly knew what they were doing at least. Now it's even the blatant dumb fucks in charge.

It's not clear what makes Netgear's currently foreign-made routers safer than, say, an Amazon Eero 7 or a Google Nest WiFi Pro.

This is all evidence that it's not really about safety. It's a clumsy attempt to strongarm tech companies into setting up factories in the USA. It may also be an attempt to create an environment in which it's easier to install US government backdoors on every home router.

Control of the routers

Control of online identity

What could go wrong?

And looks like netgear is off my list of trustworthiness. Used them for 20 years. Best get looking for a new one.

Definitely will have no backdoor or monitoring installed as default.

This seems awfully convenient for everyone, but the consumer.

boy, I wonder what palantir backdoors they definitely won't have.

Do they run openwrt?

TrendNet is far superior and based on Torrence anyway. Netgear and Linksys are junk anyway. Get yourself an open hardware platform, or something that can run OpenWRT. Skip the corporate manufacturers who all kind of suck.

The cool thing is that you can make basically any combination of parts into a router if you install Linux or BSD on it. Not terribly helpful for end user consumers that will get shafted by this, but at the end of the day it’s just a small computer.

Otherwise, smuggle some “foreign routers” in from Mexico or Canada like it’s the prohibition era?

Netgear is the one hardware company I have an absolute and complete avoidance for. If someone gave me anything from Netgear for free. It would go straight into the electronics recycling bin at my local dump and I'd go pay full price for a different brand.

Er, there’s at least 5 consumer router manufacturers that meet the new requirements. Interestingly, one of them is TP-Link.

My NetGear router still has a uselessly incomplete implementation of VLANs after 5+ years of updates, I was ready to replace it out of frustration. Gen 6 wireless is getting old hat anyway

Isn't this only for "residential" routers

What defines a commercial router? How much are we talking? In $$$

We don't even need the Access Point - those are still allowed to be sold.

Sounds like a non-tariff barrier to trade that other countries should bring up in trade negotiations.

Build your own. Fuck these people.

Not surprising . . . . .and this still does nothing to help domestic network device production in the US, since Netgear outsources their manufacturing to Taiwan.

Still need to wait for more details on what Netgear agreed on with the FCC to get the conditional approval. Otherwise it is hard to evaluate if this is a good or bad thing.

Netgear is absolute shit. Never had a good product from them. Perfect for the US.

Is it illegal yet to run dd-wrt or similar on a USA router?