Ask HN: Is there a list of preferred routers for security?

▲ dmonitor 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think the hardware matters so much as the firmware, which is solved by installing OpenWRT on anything that supports it.

If wireless security is the concern, maybe other people here know better but I don't believe anything convenient will be "secure" in the strongest sense of the word.

▲ wmf 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nest

▲ walterbell 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Probably made in Vietnam, like Amazon Eero.

▲ wmf 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Where it's manufactured has nothing to do with security.

▲ walterbell 8 hours ago | parent [-]

  FCC maintains a list of equipment and services (Covered List) that have been determined to “pose an unacceptable risk to the national security.." FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers..

	▲	wmf 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I disagree with the FCC. Banning "China routers" will not meaningfully increase security. Actual security has no correlation with country of manufacture.
	▲	reverius42 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		"national security" and "security" mean very, very different things in this context though.