alt Hacker NewsYou may be more right (and me more wrong) than you know. Another comment said their parent's ISP-provided router requires a phone to config.
You may be more right (and me more wrong) than you know. Another comment said their parent's ISP-provided router requires a phone to config.
This is also the case for the TP-Link Decos we were using, you can only configure and manage them from the app, no local web UI in sight*
And it's not like a mobile app unlocked some new features that couldn't be implemented in a browser. The app is slow, sluggish, and basic things like adding a DHCP reservation took multiple tries to succeed, each taking an agonizingly long time of watching a spinner.
If you contrast this with my home MikroTik, the UI is less "your grandma could configure it" simple, but it's fast, available over local web, SSH, desktop app, mobile app, and I think also an API, and has every feature I can think of from basic bridging to complex routing and firewalling.
* there was a very basic web UI that I recall had like 1 or 2 settings, don't remember which exactly.