If you’ve purchased a in the past year, there’s a good chance it was made by TP-Link. That might not be possible in 2026.

Investigators at the departments of Commerce, Defense and Justice all opened probes into TP-Link routers in 2024 due to ties to Chinese cyberattacks. More than half a dozen federal departments and agencies are now backing a ban, according to a Washington Post report published last week.

Prosecutors in the Justice Department’s antitrust division are also investigating whether TP-Link engaged in predatory pricing tactics, which involves selling goods below cost to wedge out competition, according to an April Bloomberg report .

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