On 2022-01-13 2:20 a.m., Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
On 13.01.2022 07:56, Juan R.D. Silva wrote:
Hi folks,
Shopping for a new ISP came across company that uses exclusively eero
6 router. Anyone to share your experience/opinion about the thing?
2 concerns of mine are:
- cloud based private network management
- Amazon owned
Thanks
I've never used this thing, but if I had to choose I would choose
against it.
If ISP uses eero 6 router exclusively, doesn't mean it is good, it is
probably because of a special deal with Amazon.
Just by skimming few reviews I can see, it's a "black box" without any
information about hardware inside, so it must be dirt cheap to produce.
Other concerns, it comes with Amazon spyware (content proxy)
pre-installed, which raises privacy concerns.
It is impossible to control without a smartphone and special app, which
leads to security concerns.
A few owners has reported about connectivity issues, that means a
firmware is not stable enough.
There is no telling about for how long it will be supported by Amazon.
The only positive thing I can think of about this overpriced toy is an
Amazon eco-system integration and Alexa interaction support. That is if
someone needs something like that in their home.
If I was in the market for the router for myself, I'd always choose one
from MikroTik¹.
They all have no-nonsence hardware and software design, no
smartphone\app requirement, no eco-system requirement (like 'Ubiquiti'
devices), it is highly customizable, has every feature you can think of,
it could be controlled via many ways, secured and monitored and will be
supported by manufacturer for years via firmware updates.
The only downside I can think of is somewhat advanced configuration
could be difficult for somebody, but with help from official forum and
wiki² quite manageable and as a bonus I'll learn a lot about networking,
routing.
¹ https://mikrotik.com/products
² https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia says:
"On 3 August 2018, MikroTik routers were found to have been compromised
by the Coinhive cryptocurrency malware."
"Beginning in June 2021, a botnet composed of unprotected Mikrotik
devices created huge volumes of application-layer traffic using http
pipelining, resulting in DDOS. The net was named Mēris (or Meris) by
Qrator. Yandex reported attacks beginning August 4 2021 (over 5 million
requests per second) with a massive attack on September 5, 2021 reaching
almost 22 million RPS (requests per second). Cloudflare acknowledged an
attack at over 17 million RPS in July 2021. The botnet appeared to be
composed of 250,000 devices."
Nice try Alexaner. :-)
Thanks anyway.
