[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 14:00:56 EDT 2015


Doesn't 5GHz border on some military bands?
On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 10:49 -0400, chip 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-wi
> > > fi-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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> Just my $.02, your mileage may vary,  batteries not included, etc....
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