Isps provide modems. You can add your own router and manage the network yourself if you’re so inclined. Why do all these threads have people like you that don’t know basic things about computing and networking commenting on this?
If foreign made routers pose a severe cybersecurity risk then why would you let the current ones on the market stay? If they were truly a problem you'd remove them from the market, not grandfather them.
But like everything with this capricious administration the real reason they're doing this is probably because someone greased their palms.
Or i’d start looking for backdoors in the old code.
That’s similar to how the backdoor in xz was found. A slightly slower connection caused by obfuscated payloads tipped off a developer to find out what caused the slowdown. His was half a second lag so i’d really be curious what would cause 4.5 seconds.
He’s the third highest contributor to archinstall.
https://github.com/dylanmtaylor
Still a dipshit but probably not a bot.