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For the average consumer / prosumer, The best I've found are Asus routers. I have a 3-4 year old Asus that still gets regular security updates. If you want to
by Covzire 8y ago
For the average consumer / prosumer, The best I've found are Asus routers. I have a 3-4 year old Asus that still gets regular security updates.
If you want to go deeper, get any cheap NUC or system with 2 NICs, install OpenBSD and configure it as a firewall / router.
- OldSchoolJohnny 8y agoI would have said that too based on our RT-AC68U right up until I read this post and thought "time to update that router" and when I did so, for the first time in many updates I was presented with a license agreement allowing ASUS to send basically every bit of data to a 3rd party (Trend Micro) for features I didn't ask for. I should have captured it but the data they described was basically every bit of data you can imagine not wanting to share with a 3rd party. I had to agree to get into the router management portal and at least they had a way to withdraw that agreement (which also turns off those features). I can't believe ASUS even considered this idea in this era of privacy concerns but I'm definitely going to research that before I buy another router.
- 713233eb 8y agoIs this the case with Merlin's firmware too or just the OEM FW?
- OldSchoolJohnny 8y agoI don't know what Merlin's firmware is, but it's completely stock with stock updates.