Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
113 points by Ixander | 124 comments
Ask HN post gauging interest in buying routers with DD-WRT pre-installed, comparing existing options like OpenWrt One, GL.iNet Flint and pfSense boxes.
#routers on Hacker News
8 stories tagged routers, newest first.
Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor(kb.cert.org)
337 points by miniBill | 115 comments
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#213560 reporting a hidden authentication backdoor in multiple versions of Tenda device firmware.
OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router(openwrt.org)
783 points by peter_d_sherman | 292 comments
OpenWrt wiki Table of Hardware page for the OpenWrt One router, a MediaTek Filogic 820-based WiFi 6 device, with specs and installation and upgrade instructions.
Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)(wiisfi.com)
361 points by homebrewer | 95 comments
A guide website explaining Wi-Fi standards 4 through 8 (802.11n/ac/ax/be/bn), covering PHY speeds, overhead, routers, and range to inform upgrade decisions.
FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers(fcc.gov)
455 points by moonka | 388 comments
FCC news release announcing that foreign-made consumer routers are added to the Covered List, prohibiting approval of new models.
Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers(stackdiary.com)
411 points by skilled | 179 comments
Stackdiary news article reporting that Linksys Velop mesh routers transmit Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to servers in the US.
OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream supported" design(lwn.net)
379 points by trelane | 148 comments
LWN archive of an openwrt-devel mailing list post by John Crispin proposing the OpenWrt One router hardware to celebrate 20 years of OpenWrt.
What happened with ASUS routers this morning?(downtowndougbrown.com)
699 points by zdw | 437 comments
Blog post by Doug Brown investigating a widespread May 2023 outage where ASUS routers lost connectivity and ran out of memory, unable to fork processes.