What's a good NON-Asus router to replace a GT-AX6000?

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Overcoming greed is really hard. Phones, computers, cars from American companies come from China. They don't sell cheaper, just the profit is larger. Local workers - who cares? Banks will give them credit and they will still buy American products Made in China. Same in Canada. To find something Made in Canada is a challenge. Chinese can make it, we can't. Must be better than us.

Hmmm - not so sure there...

It's all business - cost/benefit perhaps.

Getting back to development of devices - we can all do this, design, etc...

Get down to supply chain efficiencies and how to scale for production.

Scale is the hard part, and getting supply chain to feed it...

 

[Digilog]

Going back to why it's hard to build in the US for commodity devices like Router/AP's - comes down to logistics and supply chains, along with labor costs and availability of that labor, e.g. finding line workers to make the devices, and engineers to support them - assembly is at least $20/hr per employee, and likely higher, and engineers are easily 100K to 200K depending on experience - labor costs start to add up quickly - and BOM costs can be very high in the US, as the supply chains are limited for major parts (again made in USA) - at the end of the day, it's really hard to make a similar product in the US from US made parts and compete against Taiwan and/or the PRC - plainly put.

The cost of business has always been the same. But what I see is people comparing labor thinking its impacts the cost dramatically and it doesn't. Otherwise if it actually did, those $300 motherboards would be $80 retail instead of $80 OEM wholesale like they do. But if you want to know, it only cost $60 more per board after cost of manufacturing compared to what it costs when it was manufactured in 2000 in the USA. And none of the savings from moving it to cheap labor never impacted the retail cost except in a negative way with poor build quality in some items Beyond that, since a lot of parts are not hand placed anymore, there are going to be fewer people on these assembly line to begin with.

Things like routers are even cheaper. Because their parts are in overabundance, and there are manufacturers in the US that can make anything they have to source outside the USA.