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If you start making my router autoupdate and autoreboot like Windows does you will alienate a very large number of customers. Instead: stop making shit routers
by inetknght 8y ago
If you start making my router autoupdate and autoreboot like Windows does you will alienate a very large number of customers.
Instead: stop making shit routers.
- Yizahi 8y agoUnlike with Windows I seriously doubt that. Windows reboot is unpredictable and a) can break your work flow and b) can possible corrupt your unsaved data, calculations etc. Router reboot is simply a network outage for 2-3 minutes and routers that can do auto-update also always support configuration it. E.g. Reboot at 3am in the night, only on Monday and only if there had been new firmware in the last week. I can assure you that it is neither disrupting nor noticeable at all. Router boots neither break work flows nor corrupt your data (in SOHO segment).
- inetknght 8y agoYou assume updating the router firmware won't break or reset your configuration, and won't add new vulnerabilities you haven't already mitigated.
- 0xfeba 8y agoIt could and likely would be configurable. The problem is the people who plug the router in with the default password and forget about it. This would solve that while leaving it configurable for technical users.