To get internet access in your home, you need both a modem and a router. They aren't interchangeable, and they serve two very different functions. If you think of your home as an island, the modem is ...

Last month, we reported that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned routers made in foreign countries because the organization claimed they "pose an unacceptable risk to the national ...

Well, that came sooner than I’d expected. Hot on the heels of the news that the U.S. government had banned all foreign-made routers that weren’t already on sale or approved by the FCC, word came on ...

Following a total ban on non-US made routers, the Federal Communications Commission is allowing Netgear to sell wireless routers in the United States, practically giving it a monopoly. However, it's ...

Last month saw a surprise ban on almost every new wireless router intended for use in US homes. The FCC ruling described all foreign-made routers as a national security risk. The FCC offered a pathway ...

Netgear is the first major vendor of consumer routers to obtain an exemption from the US government’s sweeping ban on foreign-made routers. The Federal Communications Commission yesterday announced an ...

What just happened? Netgear has become the first retail consumer router company to avoid the FCC's ban on new foreign-made consumer routers, giving it a way to keep selling future products in the US ...

Netgear, the company with—by one estimate—the third-largest router market share, just got incredible news: it’s exempt from the FCC’s ban on foreign-made routers until October of 2027. Why it’s ...

Netgear has become the first clear exception to the FCC’s foreign-made router ban, giving it room to keep launching new consumer routers in the US even though its hardware is built overseas. The ...

The Federal Communications Commission has announced that Netgear has been given conditional approval that effectively exempts it from a previous ban on foreign-made networking routers. The conditional ...

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