Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ...

Update 03/17/2026: A Netgear spokesperson gave us the following statement: "Netgear is the first retail consumer router company to receive conditional approval from the FCC as a trusted consumer ...

Netgear, the company with—by one estimate—the third-largest router market share, just got incredible news: it’s exempt from the FCC’s ban on foreign-made routers until October of 2027. Why it’s ...

Well, that came sooner than I’d expected. Hot on the heels of the news that the U.S. government had banned all foreign-made routers that weren’t already on sale or approved by the FCC, word came on ...

Find out if your router is banned, when to expect firmware updates and what the latest news on the Federal Communications Commission ban means for your home network. Joe Supan is a senior writer for ...