Let’s keep this non political please.
Presented for users to plan for any Router purchases, or how it may affect users.
Pudge
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Not many options left.
| Router company | Status following the announcement |
|---|---|
| Asus | Headquartered in Taiwan, subject to the ban. |
| Cisco | Does not sell new consumer-grade routers, not subject to the ban. |
| D-Link | Headquartered in Taiwan, subject to the ban. |
| Eero | Manufacturing in Asia, subject to the ban. |
| Linksys | Owned by Foxconn, a Taiwanese multinational. Subject to the ban. |
| Nest | Manufacturing in Taiwan and Malaysia, subject to the ban. |
| Netgear | Publicly supporting the ban, but has manufacturing in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Taiwan. |
| Starlink | Routers are made in Texas, not subject to the ban. |
| Razer | Dual headquarters in California and Singapore, likely subject to the ban. |
| Synology | Headquartered in Taiwan, subject to the ban. |
| TP-Link | Planning to establish US-based manufacturing, the company said the move is a “positive step.” Currently subject to the ban. |
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Since this decision wasn’t based on any technical grounds, genuine security concerns, or even the slightest evidence of wrongdoing, I can only wish you good luck with that.
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I consider myself lucky to have bought a new router, pc, and NAS last year when prices weren’t so unfavorable.
This topic was reported in german / european news sites approx. 10 days ago. Those sites where writing that this has not yet been reported in american news sites and they were wondering why.
I read about it (here in the US) at least a week ago (can’t swear it was ten days..but with how fast they go, I bet it was). I believe they were in error to report it wasn’t on US news sites.
I don’t know whether it is political answer or not, but doesn’t FCC realize that this ban will lead to consumer-grade routers and other network hardware market crysis???
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This IS a political answer. I don’t know if they realize why the sky is blue ;0
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I read the report 10 days ago. By that time maybe there haven’t been reports in the US.
But it’s good that they are reporting now.
Security concerns are an easy argument though. Having the digital infrastructure of hundreds of millions of citizens rely on a product that is mainly produced and easily disrupted by relying on an oversea supply chain is a major risk.
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I thought CISA is an american institution which should be able to analyse every router firmware and find a backdoor? Or did they loose too many employees?
One can always get efficient and robust hardware like a little Protectli, and build their own router using OPNsense or PFSense. It’s far more capable than any consumer grade router.
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I’m not familiar with that agency or what the U.S. is up to. But I assume it requires oversea vendors sending some hardware to evaluate. If there aren’t any shipments of hardware because the supply chain got cut, what does it matter what they approve?
Ok, here’s a govt truism, never blame on evil motives what can be more easily explained by incompetence.
Yes, there is a theme in my last two comments…..
I can’t help but wonder who decided to shift the supply chain overseas to a country that, even 25 years ago, was already seen as a potential rival. Oh, wait.
I’ll stop here, because I can’t keep going without entering political territory.
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CISA is the american counterpart to the german BSI.
Oh, I’m on a roll, so I won’t stop. It is my own idiocracy, after all 
Maybe my role is to say the things you all can’t 
, but are probably thinking.
Follow the money….
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Consumers liking cheap stuff isn’t that controversial or a particularly political statement.
Well, from now on, cheap will become a word that won’t be mentioned that often, specially on tech related stuff.
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Now you don’t have to wonder anymore, there’s the explanation.