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D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Right?

Something this old is going to be power inefficient compared to newer stuff, and simply not perform as well.

I would know, I just booted up a 10 year old consumer router last night, because the current one died. It'll be OK for a few days until I can get a replacement. Boy, is this thing slow.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

My cat likes how much heat they make too.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a netgear router that isn't even that old and it doesn't have gigabit ports.

even though I was able to throw openwrt on there to mess around with it's still e-waste

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

e-waste? a lot of networks dont need anywhere near gigabit. Especially because at a lot of places around the world even the ISP can't provide that bandwidth for internet, but this applies to internal networks too. in a lot of cases a 100 mbps capable managed switch (which a router can be, even if with limitations) is enough