You will rent your NSA spyware router or face the consequences
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I bought a Netgear router that said you didn't need the App to configure it.
That was a lie, you can only configure it from a browser while it is not connected to the internet, if on the internet you need to sign in to netgear's cloud server to configure it. If you disconnect it from the internet to use the browser it resets the LAN dropping all local connections.
Then I put it behind a tcpdump and it's connecting to several netgear sites once a minute or something like that, reporting the router serial number.
Returned it and got a Chinese one. The App just reads the factory password from the QR code and configures same as with browser, no cloud account. It only talks to the internet to check for updates, if that's enabled.
I don't want a Chinese router, but Jesus Christ is Netgear a piece of shit router.
Only buy routers that are on DD-WRT or OpenWRT's compatibility lists.
I didn't see any wifi 7 that were dd-wrt compatible at the time and I don't care about it that much to mess with openwrt.
Last router was gigabit with factory firmware and maxed out at like 200 mbit with dd-wrt.
If the Chinese hack my router I'll just get that out of storage.
That's why I only have thrift store routers flashed to dd-wrt/openwrt/x-wrt, liminix, or tomato/freshtomato based firmware.