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Ask HN: Is there a list of preferred routers for security?
by analog31 7mo ago
Ask HN: Is there a list of preferred routers for security?
- wmf 7mo agoNest
- walterbell 7mo agoProbably made in Vietnam, like Amazon Eero.
- wmf 7mo agoWhere it's manufactured has nothing to do with security.
- walterbell 7mo agoFCC maintains a list of equipment and services (Covered List) that have been determined to “pose an unacceptable risk to the national security.." FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers..
- wmf 7mo agoI disagree with the FCC. Banning "China routers" will not meaningfully increase security. Actual security has no correlation with country of manufacture.
- reverius42 7mo ago"national security" and "security" mean very, very different things in this context though.
- dmonitor 7mo agoI don't think the hardware matters so much as the firmware, which is solved by installing OpenWRT on anything that supports it. If wireless security is the concern, maybe other people here know better but I don't believe anything convenient will be "secure" in the strongest sense of the word.
- FuriouslyAdrift 7mo agoA Palo Alto 440 is what I would consider a baseline for 'real' security. Way too expensive and complicated for most if not all home users. I keep recommending the free version of Sophos firewall for home users. It's still a bit of a bear to configure.
- m3047 7mo agoCompared to hardening your network, at least visiting the ZT church once in a while, running your router on a box which You control and which implements proper segmentation, provides DNS (and "DNS firewall") and an adaptive firewall, WAF (if you run web services), isolating your wifi (anything EXCEPT running it in the box provided by the ISP)? No. And you have to accept living with / mitigating that e.g. that isolated wifi access point theoretically receives and will need to apply software updates. /s People seem to treat it as some kind of heresy if you simply deny such appliances internet access.