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chaos215bar2 Wow. So, don't buy Netgear. First they cozy up to the administration to be the first one around the silly router ban. Now they go around suing competitors rather than just making a half decent product. Reply
Skwerlo At this point, I'd trust Chinese surveillance of my router a lot more than I'd trust American surveillance. Reply
thestryker I think it would have been good if the author had done a bit of a dive into the DoD designation. TP-Link appears to have been added because at some point they were beneficiaries of a Chinese manufacturing program which was launched in 2016. This program is based on market presence and revenue and is also the reason given by the DoD for adding BYD and Alibaba. Needless to say this comes across as a purely political designation rather than a sign of any actual violations. I imagine that if what Netgear says about final assembly being the only thing done in Vietnam was true TP-Link would be violating US law using a "made in" rather than "assembled in" tag. I'd also be surprised if one took apart both a Netgear and TP-Link router with similar specs and found much of any difference at the hardware level. This whole thing just smacks of Netgear taking advantage of posturing to try to punish the company that took their business. Perhaps they should have competed more on price instead of assuming being the only survivor of the original consumer wireless brands would carry them. Reply
TechieTwo There are enough documented security issues with TP hardware that I replaced mine. If not for Chinese companies "dumping" goods in U.S. markets there would be more U.S. mfgs. providing more secure hardware. Slave/child labor and lack of employment safety laws in China provide an unfair market advantage. Reply
Elusive Ruse Damn, didn’t know that about TP-Link, I’ll stay away from their products in the future and stay on Asus. Reply
phead128 When you can't compete, just try to get your competitors banned. Reply
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