My router (TP Link) said it had a firmware update. I’m a responsible adult, so I update my firmware. When I log back in, I get this popup that they’d like to share my clients info.
cool…
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Weird, I must be seeing a different screenshot, because all I read here is “TP Link would like you to overwrite its firmware with OpenWRT.”
Hold up. Since when can you put OpenWRT on non linksys routers??? I stopped following the project years ago when i stopped using linksys routers. Have they expanded their repertoire?
I’ve been using it for 10+ years on a combination of Netgear, TP-Link and Raspberry Pi hardware, so at least that long?
The last time I engaged with OpenWRT was around 2010 so that tracks.
One of two things happened:
Or:
It’s always #2
Fuck off to hell with this shit
It’s the rapist mentality, they won’t accept “no” as an answer.
What router do you have? I have the TP-Link Omada ER7212 and am not seeing this on the latest firmware
I doubt something like this will spillover to the professional line of products. We should be clear for a while with Omada.
Archer AX11000
Slap OpenWRT on that little trojan horse.
My router (WiFi v.6) has an inbuild Firewall
Time to learn how to set up OPNsense.
Or in my case, pFsense, but yeah…that’s the way.
Asus and Merlin forever
i have always wondered how this works from the legal point. what if you disagree, should you sue to get your money back? you are buying product with some expectations, they can’t just change that after you paid, can they?
it is similar with cars, what if you buy new car and the car’s infotainment asks you to accept some outrageous terms and conditions, you do bother to actually read them and then decline. can you get your money back? has anyone ever tried?
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Of course, I have the TP-Link router that isn’t well-supported 😖
I kind of miss my old Linksys routers, which officially supported third-party firmware.
I am a fan of gl.inet stuff, they come with [a customized version of] OpenWRT preinstalled. I’m a industrial tech and I’ve used a couple of their products as hotspots when working on machines for years, I’ve even connected multiple together to work on 2-3 production lines on different subnets at the same time.
Very cool. Thanks for the recommendation.
Now, what is it, one or many!?
Yes!
Yes
I love how they say they won’t save your private info, but nothing about whether the third party will
Well, TP Link have never been trustworthy. Cheap and trustworthy rarely exist together.
I have the best smart plugs I could acquire - Kasa brand. They’re great adapters, but the moment their API call doesn’t get a response from their servers, they restart themselves every ten minutes. We all have to make some sacrifices in the journey to net security and independence, and keeping their API unblocked is one of mine.
If anyone wants smart plugs for monitoring purposes the Kasa brand is operable without the TP-Link app. Tapo is far worse. Never go full Tapo.
I have kasa switches and everything is blocked on my firewall so they can’t phone home.
Overall they function fine. But I have 1 pesky switch that is constantly in a disconnected state (red light) no matter what I do. Every time I reconnect it it disconnects not too long later. It functions fine though, possibly because its a 3 way and the paired switch is fine.
I have another set of 3 way switches that have disconnected a few times but reconnecting them works just fine for a long while (years).
So my questions are, that pesky red light switch sounds kind of like your situation. When you say they reset themselves, do the lights go red?
Secondly, yours reset every 10 minutes? Most of mine seem fine. I’m not sure what’s different between our setups.
I haven’t seen the lights go red, only off, then orange, then green if they were already on.
Of my KP105 and KP115 plugs, only one has misbehaved, only once when their server was unreachable. The main culprit is the Kasa 303 I think it’s called? The 3-outlet adapter.
They are great devices! But I’m waiting for a Zigbee or Matter alternative with energy monitoring so these can be swapped out
Gotcha. So with a few exceptions they overall seem perform well across the board.
Once upon a time I dreamed of switching them all out for something better, and was actually looking forward to Tapo with matter support.
But for my uses I’m basically pulling the plug. My switches are smart enough. I can do schedules, profiles, and control with the app.
I don’t need more than that and there’s not really a privacy focused option as far as I know. Blocking internet is my solution to keep things contained.
Yup, bought a bunch of TP-Link mesh towers. Turns out that they take down the whole WiFi when the main node looses internet connection. That’s just not acceptable, I might have an unstable internet connection but still want access to my local devices, such as my streaming server or router.
On that node, does anyone know of a brand of mesh towers that can survive unstable/no internet connections and don’t use custom firmware? DD-WRT works just fine, but I’m not gonna flash custom firmware onto friends’ devices.
Wouldn’t you be helping them?
Kasa is owned by TP Link
I stopped using TP Link stuff after read a few articles on their significant security issues having something to do with their Chinese ownership, and back doors or something. It’s too bad, as far as usability and reliability, they were way better than the Netgear and Asus is have now.
Well, thats a shame. I have always preferred TP-Link due to their pricing and freedom of software/smart home integrations. This definitely puts a damper on that.