Hrrrgghhh routers! The last two I’ve dealt with were a Netgear and an ASUS and… well, at least the ASUS got out of my way relatively quickly? SSH’d in and crammed it full of OpenWRT 😅Did the same to the Netgear but that one fought so hard to force me into using some admin-through-their-website kind of horsecrap that I hate. All’ the docs I wanted/needed were lies, BS, broken links, contradictory… it was a proper mess. I don’t want a singing, dancing bird-robot tweeting all night (to some corp’s servers), just gimme a damn router that’s mine!
… I may be a little bit old-headed about some tech things <.< I guess things are moving on to “your own hardware as a service” now :-\
For me it was the Xfinity router. I knew I shouldn’t have bought one and should have gone for a third party one, but I did it anyway because it was cheaper when I was setting up my Internet plan.
Stupid thing forces you to download an app to get it to work and sign in. Apparently if you buy any other third party combination modem and router, you just log into a default web page and sign in with default credentials. But no, for the Xfinity one you need to connect on the app and let it search over 5G for the thing, which took ages. There were multiple times where I set it down to load, came back, and the app said it failed to find it. When the router was sitting within inches of my phone
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Hrrrgghhh routers! The last two I’ve dealt with were a Netgear and an ASUS and… well, at least the ASUS got out of my way relatively quickly? SSH’d in and crammed it full of OpenWRT 😅Did the same to the Netgear but that one fought so hard to force me into using some admin-through-their-website kind of horsecrap that I hate. All’ the docs I wanted/needed were lies, BS, broken links, contradictory… it was a proper mess. I don’t want a singing, dancing bird-robot tweeting all night (to some corp’s servers), just gimme a damn router that’s mine!
… I may be a little bit old-headed about some tech things <.< I guess things are moving on to “your own hardware as a service” now :-\
For me it was the Xfinity router. I knew I shouldn’t have bought one and should have gone for a third party one, but I did it anyway because it was cheaper when I was setting up my Internet plan.
Stupid thing forces you to download an app to get it to work and sign in. Apparently if you buy any other third party combination modem and router, you just log into a default web page and sign in with default credentials. But no, for the Xfinity one you need to connect on the app and let it search over 5G for the thing, which took ages. There were multiple times where I set it down to load, came back, and the app said it failed to find it. When the router was sitting within inches of my phone