Routers

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Routers, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Setting DNS on every device individually becomes extremely cumbersome for large households2025-02-28
Routers no longer let users disable ALGs, so NAT helpers can't be turned off2024-10-20
Config UI is slow, with fading effects and fake loading spinners delaying simple tasks2022-09-06
Commenter finds router firmware landscape confusing and can't work out what to try next2021-09-14
Router switches to congested channel after radar and never returns to DFS channel2020-12-23
Router management UIs are terrible, causing problems when setting them up2020-09-10
Confirm button was hidden in a frame and could not be found or pressed without zooming out2019-06-09
Managing each device through its own crappy web interface is a nightmare2018-10-03
Confusing combo-box labels make it hard to set per-host inbound firewall rules2018-09-08