Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Imagine my shock and disappointment when one of the first things I see when I associate the RAVPower RP-WD03 with my own wireless as a client is it hitting some IP address out of Shenzhen in mainland China and maintaining some type of udp heartbeat there. I haven't thrown wireshark at it yet, but I have little interest in trying to figure out *what* they're phoning home about - anything more than "nothing" is totally unacceptable without clear opt-in, to which the answer will be NOPE and I don't want to hear about some integrated home-grown cloud-washed "service" that "enhances" my experience. But that's just the sharp tip of this iceberg. Here's what I found in 10 minutes of tooling around: It's running a Linux 2.6 kernel from more than 5 years ago and a ton of other 2011-era software. It's got busybox (with weak sauce module choices) but no dropbear or other sshd... but telnetd is listening with a terrible default password. Let me be clear on that: The RAVPower RP-WD03, first available on Amazon in March of 2015, does not support sshd but comes default with telnetd on and a globally known password. WHAT YEAR IS IT?!? It's a veritable dumping ground of lazy product iteration since... oh wow, this is too rich - look at this... since the "organization came to be in 2011" right there on ravpower.com's about page... the rough age of most of the system software. Yeah, so based on the dates, they pushed a pretty poorly designed original system firmware image for their first product out the door in 2011 and have been ineptly duct taping the occasional feature into it ever since. I cannot recommend any RAVPower products that include Linux and connect to the internet. Do not give them your business.