[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[Pete Hardie]

Does anyone know if consumer routers are built so that the radio firmware
is separate from the packet control firmware?  Or are they monoliths?


On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:49 AM, chip <chip.gwyn at gmail.com> wrote:

> So reading through this it appears the purpose is to keep people from
> modifying the firmware of the radio itself, not the packet processing
> capabilities.  Basically, don't allow unauthorized modification of the
> radio's firmware to exceed or operate outside of FCC required ranges.  The
> documentation specifically calls out UNII devices, which is a 5Ghz wireless
> device.
>
> --chip
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Kill this law. Kill it now. Kill it with fire.
>>
>> https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Save_WiFi/
>>
>> -- CHS
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:21 AM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/02/2015 09:34 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>>> > On 09/02/2015 09:04 AM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>> >> Buy your wifi routers now before you can't change their firmware:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> http://hackaday.com/2015/08/31/fcc-introduces-rules-banning-wifi-router-firmware-modification/
>>> > suggestions on a cheap one to buy to keep as a spare??
>>> >
>>>
>>> For inside your LAN, doesn't matter much.
>>>
>>> For the edge router, build a pfsense box and use a separate wifi-AP.
>>>
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