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From: Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me>
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Subject: Re: WiFi enabled cable modems or WiFi routers for Linux?
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 21:27:32 +0100
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On 09/07/2024 17:26, Pancho wrote:
> On 09/07/2024 16:25, Andy Burns wrote:
>> Nuno Silva wrote:
>>
>>> Popping Mad wrote:
>>>
>>>> that is often bad it that link is through a cloud service.
>>>
>>> What!? So far I've only seen web admin interfaces that are on LAN
>>> addresses. Which manufacturers are doing that?
>>
>> Not my own, but I've seen a Linksys mesh system that requires you to 
>> create a cloud account, then use a mobile app to login to the cloud 
>> configure the devices ...
>>
> 
> My Mercusys Mesh Wifi System only has a Cloud UI.
> 

Actually, this is misleading. The Mesh WiFi is controlled by an app on 
my Android Phone. It isn't a cloud service. The phone app normally 
connects to a cloud web server when I run it, but it doesn't need to. It 
controls the WiFi access points via the WLAN. It also works when the 
phone is cut off from the WAN/Mobile provider.

My WiFi access points are fire wall blocked from the WAN. A LAN IP can 
route to the WAN through a WiFi access point, but a WiFi access point's 
own IP has no external WAN access.

I guess this isn't as bad as I made it seem. Maybe they do it because it 
was cheaper to develop an Android UI than it was to develop a Web UI.

Security wise, it may be no worse than a locked down local web-server 
interface. I'm not smart enough to know.