News Banana Pi launches $30 OpenWRT Wi-Fi 6 Router with WPA3 protection, optional PoE

[Admin]

Banana Pi released its Wi-Fi 6 router based on the board that uses OpenWrt open-source router firmware that it has been selling for a while but with casing, antennas, and power adapter all for $30 excluding shipping.

Banana Pi launches $30 OpenWRT Wi-Fi 6 Router with WPA3 protection, optional PoE : Read more

 

[kanewolf]

WPA3 sounds like a good thing, but there are lots of devices that won't work in a WPA3 environment because of the requirement of WPA3 to have protected management frames (PMF). Even WPA2 with PMF breaks lots of devices.

 

[digitalgriffin]

Wanna bet it's full of security holes.

If you get one, burn the firmware yourself.

 

[wakuwaku]

Banana Pi's low-cost router supports 2.5G+5G WiFi with LAN ports

We now have confirmation that that:
1. This article is AI written. No human tech writer would use the 2.5G term for WiFi. This is because it is used purely for marketing, yet its is false advertising since 2.5G doesn't exist as a WiFi standard. Also 2.5G is used to market 2.5 Gigabit ethernet ports, which is a valid way to advertise to customers seeking them, therefore potentially making the article misleading and confusing all because you want to up your SEO game.
2. tom's AI is made in China. Because 2.5G is only used by Chinese based sellers to market WiFi just because 4 is not a nice number in China, they probably want a nice round number that is exactly half of 5Ghz, and bigger number better than 2.4G. I am very sure a non-China based AI will not do this, or at least has a very low chance of doing this.

Note I am not being racist or xenophobic. I myself have relatives and friends of Chinese origin, being in a multiracial country. I'm just stating a possibility based on the facts. If the article had spewed out 2.4G, I would've thought your AI has a low chance being non-Chinese and complain anyway because you are being lazy by not typing Ghz.

Wanna bet it's full of security holes.

Now this is being racist/xenophobic. Assuming the typical stereotype all because a Chinese company is selling a product on Aliexpress.
The product is open source. There is not much choice in terms of having open source directly working with of the shelf hardware. If you want to complain why don't YOU established a non-China based company selling open sourced SOCs so that we can make our own ones that purportedly have less security issues all because we sell it on Amazon(?)

 

[das_stig]

We now have confirmation that that:
1. This article is AI written. No human tech writer would use the 2.5G term for WiFi. This is because it is used purely for marketing, yet its is false advertising since 2.5G doesn't exist as a WiFi standard. Also 2.5G is used to market 2.5 Gigabit ethernet ports, which is a valid way to advertise to customers seeking them, therefore potentially making the article misleading and confusing all because you want to up your SEO game.
2. tom's AI is made in China. Because 2.5G is only used by Chinese based sellers to market WiFi just because 4 is not a nice number in China, they probably want a nice round number that is exactly half of 5Ghz, and bigger number better than 2.4G. I am very sure a non-China based AI will not do this, or at least has a very low chance of doing this.

Note I am not being racist or xenophobic. I myself have relatives and friends of Chinese origin, being in a multiracial country. I'm just stating a possibility based on the facts. If the article had spewed out 2.4G, I would've thought your AI has a low chance being non-Chinese and complain anyway because you are being lazy by not typing Ghz.

Now this is being racist/xenophobic. Assuming the typical stereotype all because a Chinese company is selling a product on Aliexpress.
The product is open source. There is not much choice in terms of having open source directly working with of the shelf hardware. If you want to complain why don't YOU established a non-China based company selling open sourced SOCs so that we can make our own ones that purportedly have less security issues all because we sell it on Amazon(?)

I agree slightly racist/xenophobic but lets be honest, Chinese companies don't have a very good track record and who knows what the "Peoples Dept For Spying on Everybody and Everything" has made them include free of charge, that can't be seen in OpenWRT.

 

[digitalgriffin]

We now have confirmation that that:
1. This article is AI written. No human tech writer would use the 2.5G term for WiFi. This is because it is used purely for marketing, yet its is false advertising since 2.5G doesn't exist as a WiFi standard. Also 2.5G is used to market 2.5 Gigabit ethernet ports, which is a valid way to advertise to customers seeking them, therefore potentially making the article misleading and confusing all because you want to up your SEO game.
2. tom's AI is made in China. Because 2.5G is only used by Chinese based sellers to market WiFi just because 4 is not a nice number in China, they probably want a nice round number that is exactly half of 5Ghz, and bigger number better than 2.4G. I am very sure a non-China based AI will not do this, or at least has a very low chance of doing this.

Note I am not being racist or xenophobic. I myself have relatives and friends of Chinese origin, being in a multiracial country. I'm just stating a possibility based on the facts. If the article had spewed out 2.4G, I would've thought your AI has a low chance being non-Chinese and complain anyway because you are being lazy by not typing Ghz.

Now this is being racist/xenophobic. Assuming the typical stereotype all because a Chinese company is selling a product on Aliexpress.
The product is open source. There is not much choice in terms of having open source directly working with of the shelf hardware. If you want to complain why don't YOU established a non-China based company selling open sourced SOCs so that we can make our own ones that purportedly have less security issues all because we sell it on Amazon(?)

Personal experience and news reports. I got a generic ESP32 that tried to flood my computer with USB based hack attacks the second I plugged it in to test it. These small vendors are known for security issues. Even big ones do. IE: Huawei. Recently there was a company selling net appliance boxes that used a hack to bypass windows authentication. Guess what? It was full of malware. I will admit that they can come from anywhere.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8nJobY1SGM&t=1039s


I will say cavaet emptor. If you want security, burn your own firmware from openly peer reviewed git hubs. Even netgate will tell you "You buy from us, you can be assured there are no backdoors and you get official support"