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Bought a netgear router and a tplink repeater within the last year. All the cloud account crap is only required to use the mobile apps. However they all offer w
by nsm 5y ago
Bought a netgear router and a tplink repeater within the last year. All the cloud account crap is only required to use the mobile apps. However they all offer web interfaces directly at their ip addresses. Just use that and bypass all the dark patterns.
It sucks that companies feel the need to cloudify everything.
- dnautics 5y agoMaybe I'm dense, but I could not figure out how to use my netgear wi-fi AP without registering your account. Same with TP-link. What's worse, is the TP-link didn't say "requires registration" on the box.
- david422 5y agoAll netgear routers can use routerlogin.net Also have netgear with no cloud account required. Also don't use mobile apps.
- cma 5y agoNew netgear stuff only works without a cloud account when you unplug it from the net. That means no remote admin through a local machine (have to be there to pull the plug), and no settings changes without disrupting internet.
- ABeeSea 5y agoI just logged into my new netgear router from 192.168.1.1 without unplugging anything.
- b112 5y agoI wonder, fall for the trick, setup cloud, and you are forever trapped?
- david422 5y agoI dunno, I've had netgear forever, before they ever had cloud logins, and I've just set it up the exact same way every time. Maybe if I was buying my first netgear today I would be suckered into the cloud stuff since I wouldn't know any better.
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- csdreamer7 5y agoI bought a tplink wifi repeater years ago and it definitely required a cloud account to use. There may be a way to set it manually, but it was not obvious to me.
- b112 5y agoI don't even want a device, at all, if it has the capability for cloud management. It obviously phones home, and has all sorts of additional exploit angles. I bet there's a daemon listening 24x7 for incoming connects, too. Ubiquity ERL already had a security issue with theirs.