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That's a good solution for geeks, not so much for everyone else. Regular people don't even update their routers, much less flash 3rd party software on them. I don't think most people even know updating your router is even a possibility.

I use Google Wifi and it updates itself. In the future I might put in a PFSense, but wifi solutions like Google Wifi/Eero/etc are the way to go if you're not a computer person.

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That may be behind the Eero move to go subscription only. Could be good if implemented properly but much more expensive that just buying a high end router.

Plume just announced that you'll need to buy an annual cloud license for their new stuff as well. I just dont see this taking off as a business model. How large is the intersection of people who know give a high enough importance to router security with the people who couldn't roll their own solution?

Plume is the one that switched to subscription only. Eero plus is only extras, the eero’s themselves are still up front and subscription free.

https://reddit.com/r/eero/comments/8qlgbw/_/e0k704c/?context...

> Regular people don't even update their routers

I work on a product that gets connected to people's home wifi. In the last year we've had several with routers running WEP security.

WEP was superseded in 2003 by WPA, and deprecated in 2004!

This does sound like a good general model. Assuming it has a 2nd partition or whatever to guarantee you'll never end up with a non-working router.

google wifi might give you some security and ease of use but you also give up privacy. not a good tradeoff considering the alternatives.

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