From smart speakers and fitness trackers to Wi-Fi fridges and interconnected air fryers, smart products have integrated seamlessly into people’s homes and everyday lives – in fact, research shows that four in five Brits own at least one.*
Easy enough to enforce. Put all your IoT devices into their own subnet/VLAN with no Internet access. Then, you’ll quickly see which devices you need to replace, or just not use as “smart” devices.
I have a ton of smart devices that don’t even connect to wifi at all. None of them have Internet access of any sort.
Easy enough! except, that most people don’t even know what is a VLAN, let alone have any network device that supports it. It takes a special kind of router to have such settings, and no, OpenWRT is not the solution for that as they have limitations on the minimum amount of memory the device has to have
It means you don’t know how to make it work. Last I checked, a used N100 all in one PC with dual Ethernet is cheaper than even most brand new consumer routers, and also sips watts.
also, in my area most people either use the ISP router, or buy the cheapest ones which is around 50-75 eur which there are plenty, and they are already complaining that it’s too expensive
The largest majority of people also can’t be bothered to do a single shred of research before buying something. How is that anyone else’s problem but theirs?
The best consumer protection comes from the consumer. Do a bit of research before you buy something.
If you can’t be bothered to take a few extra minutes to do that, then quite frankly, you deserve to be fucked by scammers.
largest majority of smarthome shit users don’t know or care how computers work. are you willing to legally ban them from buying these garbage? or what is the solution?
and then they need to set it up (wtf, they have issues navigating their phones), and get it maintained (updates)
Easy enough to enforce. Put all your IoT devices into their own subnet/VLAN with no Internet access. Then, you’ll quickly see which devices you need to replace, or just not use as “smart” devices.
I have a ton of smart devices that don’t even connect to wifi at all. None of them have Internet access of any sort.
Easy enough! except, that most people don’t even know what is a VLAN, let alone have any network device that supports it. It takes a special kind of router to have such settings, and no, OpenWRT is not the solution for that as they have limitations on the minimum amount of memory the device has to have
So it’s a skill issue, then? Got it. Any old PC + a $10 pcie network adapter can be turned into a router capable of it.
it is first and foremost a
Hardware issue.
but also who the fuck wants to have a power hungry PC as the router. old PC, so we can probably count with 80 W at the least
but also, how the fuck would a PC help with the skill issue?
It means you don’t know how to make it work. Last I checked, a used N100 all in one PC with dual Ethernet is cheaper than even most brand new consumer routers, and also sips watts.
also, in my area most people either use the ISP router, or buy the cheapest ones which is around 50-75 eur which there are plenty, and they are already complaining that it’s too expensive
cheapest n100 I see here is 100 eur: https://www.amazon.fr/intel-n100/s?k=intel+n100
I’m not in france.
You can’t buy used on Amazon. I said used
The largest majority of people also can’t be bothered to do a single shred of research before buying something. How is that anyone else’s problem but theirs?
The best consumer protection comes from the consumer. Do a bit of research before you buy something.
If you can’t be bothered to take a few extra minutes to do that, then quite frankly, you deserve to be fucked by scammers.
largest majority of smarthome shit users don’t know or care how computers work. are you willing to legally ban them from buying these garbage? or what is the solution?
and then they need to set it up (wtf, they have issues navigating their phones), and get it maintained (updates)
Again. That’s a lack of skill. Why is it my problem?
If they can’t be bothered to do 5 minutes of research before buying something, that’s on them.
Caveat emptor.