Every device in your home reaches the world through one box. The RISC-V Router makes that box answer to you: open software, a network for every kind of device, and private tunnels in and out.
Every message, every stream and every smart device's chatter passes through your router. It decides what each device can reach and what the outside world can see, and too often that decision is made by software you cannot read, from a vendor you cannot question. The RISC-V Router puts that decision in your hands, device by device.
Route any profile through a VPN provider, or through two in sequence so that no single provider sees both who you are and where you go. Your ISP sees an encrypted tunnel. Each profile can resolve names through DNS servers of its own, over HTTPS.
Send a profile through VPNs in other jurisdictions and choose the DNS servers it trusts. Filtering that depends on reading your traffic or answering your lookups stops at your door.
Profiles are separated at the network layer: the thermostat cannot see the laptop, and a guest cannot see either. No device opens a port to the internet unless you allow it.
As open as a router can be built today: a RISC-V processor, an open boot stack, and StartWRT, MIT licensed like everything Start9 ships. There is no account to create, no cloud to depend on, and every setting lives in a standard OpenWrt file you can read yourself.
A network this capable once demanded a command line and years of practice. StartWRT, Start9's free, open-source fork of OpenWrt, makes it a matter of choosing from a menu, all from your browser.
We are open-source maximalists. Everything Start9 ships is MIT licensed, and every part of this router that can be open today is. Here is all of it, including the two parts that aren't yet.
Every RISC-V Router comes with a year of help from the Start9 team, the people who build its software. A $200 subscription, at no additional cost.
Eight RISC-V cores, and a slot for the Wi-Fi radio you add.
