Which Brands Will Be Hardest Hit by FCC's Foreign Router Ban? Here's the List

Which Brands Will Be Hardest Hit by FCC's Foreign Router Ban? Here's the List

Data from Ookla's Speedtest.net offers a rare look at the most popular Wi-Fi router brands in the US. Surprisingly, TP-Link isn't number one.

US Bans All Foreign-Made Consumer Routers - Schneier on Security

This is for new routers; you don’t have to throw away your existing ones: The Executive Branch determination noted that foreign-produced routers (1) introduce “a supply chain vulnerability that could disrupt the U.S. economy, critical infrastructure, and national defense” and (2) pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure and directly harm U.S. persons.” More informa…

Why can't we have nice routers anymore?

The Trump-dominated FCC is under the delusion that it can magically restore US-made Wi-Fi manufacturing by blocking all foreign-made consumer routers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned essentially all new model consumer Wi-Fi routers built outside the US when there are no—none, nada—US router OEMs. In case you haven’t noticed, the US gave up manufacturing tech goods ages ago because American workers were always annoyingly demand…