Re: Re: routers
By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Sat Mar 28 2026 12:25 pm

All are made outside of the USA. Starlink is "assembled" in the USA, even though the components are manufactured overseas.

I was wondering who even makes routers in the USA. According to Google, Starlink makes routers in Texas, and Cisco & Cradlepoint make enterprise & industrial-grade routers. So our US-based routers would be fairly limited, unless other companies selling routers in the US decide to make their routers in the US too. And if the concern is security (so I've heard), I wonder if it would even mean anything if those companies made their routers in the US? I imagine they'd be putting the same firmware on them.

This is sort of a reason I like to use open router firmware like DD-WRT, OpenWRT, & such (the main reason is I just like having the configurability that these 3rd-party firmware options allow, and the more frequent updates they get, which should include security updates).

Nightfox

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Re: Re: routers
By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Mar 28 2026 07:18 pm

it depends on what you consider 'made'.

Several years ago, I heard California passed a law such that Fender (guitar maker) could no longer label its US-made guitars as US-made, because a lot of the components are made overseas. A product needs to have at least a minimum percent of components made in the US to be labeled US-made, even if it's assembled in the US.

Nightfox

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I have a Asus RT-AX82U router that is almost 5 years old, should i go for a Wifi 7 router
before the FCC restrictions take hold?

It's either going to get rescinded because it's a stupid EO, will turn
into a cash/info grab ("Sure, you can sell your router here, it'll take
a $100,000 yearly certification fee and Palantir will arrange an audit")
and they'll still be available, just the costs will be passed on to
consumers and we'll be dealing with potential backdoors.

So, yeah, buy it now and throw OpenWRT on it as soon as possible.

I wonder if the exclusions for commercial routers cover those folks who are using whatever their online provider gives them. If it does, it would make
me suspect that many online providers are for this.


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