[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[Raylynn Knight]

Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X for about $60 has 5 GigE ports and runs a modified Debian distribution.

Ray Knight


> On Sep 2, 2015, at 4:23 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> 
> The consumer routers like Linksys/Cisco, DLink, etc. are all monolithic
> SoC-based systems.  The firmware controls both the radio and the rest of
> the functions.  If and only if the companies split the functions between
> two chips (one radio chip and one everything else chip) there would be
> no problems with the current ruling.  However that's very unlikely which
> means that pushing third-party firmware onto the device would be near
> impossible by these rules.
> 
> Most likely what I'd end up doing has already been mentioned, a box that
> runs wired firewalling/routing/NAT and then an internal AP for the
> wireless.  I still need to find a single-board system that has dual GigE
> NICs.  I don't want to do Ethernet-over-USB if possible.
> 
> 
>> On 2015-09-02 07:56, Pete Hardie wrote:
>> 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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