- Your home network is more exposed than it should be - Your home network is more exposed than it should be. Your work laptop, banking sessions, security cameras, and smart home devices all pass through this router - a flaw here gives an attacker leverage over all of them at once.
- Your home network is more exposed than it should be - Your home network is more exposed than it should be. Your work laptop, banking sessions, security cameras, and smart home devices all pass through this router - a flaw here gives an attacker leverage over all of them at once.
- A real gap that affects every device sharing this Wi-Fi - It affects every device sharing this Wi-Fi - your work laptop, your phone, your kids' devices, your security cameras. Not the most urgent threat on the page, but a real edge an attacker can use to reach the rest.
This router gets the basics right, but the gaps are significant. The AX7800 is manufactured in China. If any device on your Wi-Fi gets infected - a kid’s tablet, a smart bulb, a guest’s phone - it can reach your work laptop and banking app on the same flat network.
A C grade is not a sign-off. It means there are real, exploitable issues affecting this network every day.
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Your home network is more exposed than it should be
Your home network is more exposed than it should be. Your work laptop, banking sessions, security cameras, and smart home devices all pass through this router - a flaw here gives an attacker leverage over all of them at once.
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Foreign manufacture - FCC ban applies: The AX7800 is manufactured in China. The FCC's March 2026 rule applies to manufacturing origin regardless of where the company is headquartered.
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Your home network is more exposed than it should be
Your home network is more exposed than it should be. Your work laptop, banking sessions, security cameras, and smart home devices all pass through this router - a flaw here gives an attacker leverage over all of them at once.
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Zyxel vulnerability history - critical CVEs: Zyxel routers have had multiple critical vulnerabilities in 2022–2023 including authentication bypass and command injection flaws (CVE-2022-30525, CVE-2023-28771). Patch cadence has improved but the track record warrants scrutiny.
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A real gap that affects every device sharing this Wi-Fi
It affects every device sharing this Wi-Fi - your work laptop, your phone, your kids' devices, your security cameras. Not the most urgent threat on the page, but a real edge an attacker can use to reach the rest.
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Taiwan-headquartered - supply chain considerations: Taiwanese companies are not subject to China's National Intelligence Law. Supply chain concerns are lower than Chinese-owned manufacturers but not zero given manufacturing location.
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