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I've heard good things about TP-Link's Omada series. Their controller even looks like a clone of Unifi's
by ThatPlayer 6y ago
I've heard good things about TP-Link's Omada series. Their controller even looks like a clone of Unifi's
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoIsn’t TP-link a Chinese company?
- catblast01 6y agoIs ubiquiti a Chinese company? Really, what a low effort idiotic post.
- clajiness 6y agoWe can assume what they were implying, but it seems like a legitimate question. Also, Ubiquiti is an American company, right?
- hayst4ck 6y agoIt's pretty hard to deny that Chinese US relations are heating up. Supporting your own supply chain is becoming a matter of national security, both in terms of potential attacks (what if they load state software on Chinese devices, especially as a response to military action), and in terms of supporting your own industry.
- catblast01 6y agoI don’t deny any of that. But where is most of the hardware for just about any network and computing equipment manufactured? Questioning if tplink is made in China is pretty low effort and pointless. A thoughtful analysis would ask why an onshore supplier would fundamentally be any less vulnerable to political adversaries.
- sngz 6y agobeing made in china and being a Chinese company are very different things and the risks are different.
- 0xy 6y agoMuch like Cisco being exposed to US supply chains leaves them vulnerable to tampering by US intelligence through physical interception, merely being made in China is a security risk.
- TheRealDunkirk 6y ago30 years ago, my, then-Representative, Mike Pence was going around supporting tariffs on Chinese steel. I thought tariffs were a Bad Idea, prima facie. Pence explained that if we allowed China to decimate our steel industry, we wouldn't be able to make tanks, domestically. Cogito ergo sum, it was a _literal_ national defense issue. I don't know where the steel issue stands any more, but we've already been at war with China over intellectual property for 20 years. It would make a great deal of sense to subsidize domestic silicon fabs and computer hardware manufacturing, and tariff foreign versions, for the same reason. It's no secret why Facebook is not allowed in China. They know exactly what it really does, and what its true value is, and they're not willing to allow that leverage to the US, and it's disturbing that their lack of reciprocity doesn't seem to cause much concern. It's kind of disgusting that we've outsourced so much of our infrastructure to a country which, in another generation, is going to become the world's most powerful. China is playing the long game. We're willingly giving up our lead because we've built our post-70's society on the almighty stock option, and our myopic focus on only the next quarter.
- lostlogin 6y agoHaving messed with TP-Links smart plugs, I’ve been really impressed. They integrate well into Home Assistant too.
- msbarnett 6y agoLast time I looked into this (admittedly several years ago), TP-Link had a really poor reputation for not patching known security issues in their firmware. Not sure how much I’d trust their products unless they’ve really done a 180 in terms of security in the last year or two.