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Extending wifi with standard Velop node?

Because you got no certaintity of what someone may have put in the router or if it has a malicious firmware:

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/th...d-cyber-actors-hide-in-router-firmware.40511/
Interesting view. Do you mean a used router from eBay may have it? Would the same concerns apply to the router provided by CF?

I usually reset used phones or laptops, but didn't think about network equipment. Although it seems quite obvious, provided you care about such risk at all.
 
Interesting view. Do you mean a used router from eBay may have it? Would the same concerns apply to the router provided by CF?

I usually reset used phones or laptops, but didn't think about network equipment. Although it seems quite obvious, provided you care about such risk at all.
Unlikely to have spyware from China but it could have been compromised by hackers, or malware installed to steal passwords, capture banking credentials etc.
 
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I’ve got a CF MX4200 I’m testing atm with V1 firmware reflashed to retail. Looking at an additional unit as these will go to a family member behind a pfsense firewall.

Can you mix models and firmware versions? They’ll be all wired in and in bridge mode. Aim to replace the junk Virgin hub3 for wireless work.

Also noticed that the V1 units have a 5Ghz channel width of 40Mhz, correct? So V2 will offer 80Mhz

Failing that UniFi Express might be considered.
 
I’ve got a CF MX4200 I’m testing atm with V1 firmware reflashed to retail. Looking at an additional unit as these will go to a family member behind a pfsense firewall.

Can you mix models and firmware versions? They’ll be all wired in and in bridge mode. Aim to replace the junk Virgin hub3 for wireless work.

Failing that UniFi Express might be considered.
A friend of mine mixed and matched CF Linksys routers with Linksys routers bought off Amazon and had some network issues which were resolved once he removed the non-CF routers. So the evidence does seem to support the fact that routers in different firmware might lead to problems. And Linksys probably only tests their equipment using the same firmware version otherwise their regression testing would be virtually infinite having to combine multiple products using different firmware versions.
 
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Many thanks for the further info. I will proceed with caution. Probably install just the one unit in bridge mode and see how they get on.

Worst case it’ll be given away / ditched at the tip

Virgin contract up, so they have to do that dance first and have the hub3 replaced with a 5.
 
My expectation with these units is that in bridge mode the 3rd party aspects shouldn't be involved as ultimately pfsense/onsense will be the firewall/router device.
 
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