Johny B Good wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Brian Gaff wrote

Hmm, most odd. I thought the innards of these things
tended to be the same just badge engineered tese days.

No they are not.

That's a bit of a sweeping statement.

Sure, but they arent all the same device rebadged.

It's surprising just how different they can be.

So they can't all be the same device rebadged.

However, you do see badge engineered versions
of Zyxel(?) and Netgear kit re-marketed by the
likes of Peak and (spit!) Belkin.

Sure, but that's not what he said.

If I had to make do with a badge engineered version, I'd choose
Peak over Belkin every time. The hardware might be the same but
the OEM customer (Belkin) will usually employ someone to write,
in Belkin's case, a ****e version of the firmware so full of security
lapses as to turn a moderately bad piece of kit into a festering
PoS so bad that anyone with a moderate level of knowledge
wouldn't want to touch it with a bargepole.

So even that isnt just badge engineering.