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Best Routers for Privacy? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I'm looking to get a new router, but all of the ones I've found try to force a mandatory internet connection/account creation to activate them without any bypass methods (at least that my searching could find).

Is there any way to get a new router to work without connecting an account to it? Or a way to bypass it? If not, is there a specific used router that might be more privacy friendly?

I don't need anything special, it's just home wifi.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago

I don’t buy the latest flagship routers so I’ve never had to set up one without having to create an online account yet. I bet if you look at some Netgear (or similar) models from a couple of years back, they won’t have online activation and they just have the default admin credentials on a sticker under the router.

If you want a more up-to-date one, GL.Inet routers ship with OpenWRT installed, and you don’t need an online account to activate them.

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