[GTALUG] Sidebar to: Help with choosing a WiFi router

[David Collier-Brown]

(To the list) Chrome/Firefox is being cautious (and doing a DOS (:-)).
Grab it with `curl 
http://huchra.bufferbloat.net/~d/fcc_saner_software_practices.pdf 
 >fcc_saner_software_practices.pdf`

I'll email a copy

--dave

On 2019-03-31 1:39 p.m., o1bigtenor wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 7:20 AM David Collier-Brown via talk
> <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>> On 2019-03-30 11:10 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
>>
>>> The TP-link C7 was a good candidate a few years ago.  OpenWRT support,
>>> cheap, AC1750.  They did decide to lock out firmware replacement due
>>> to their (quite rational) interpretation of a new FCC interpretation
>>> of regulations.  I hope that that has blown over.
>> Dave Taht, Vint Cerf and a cast of thousands pointed out that made it
>> harder for the FCC instead of easier, and they quietly changed their
>> guidance. (I was Dave's editor on that one: see
>> http://huchra.bufferbloat.net/~d/fcc_saner_software_practices.pdf)
>>
>> Some vendors have continued to block updates, citing the original
>> guidance, but that's just their justification for an attempt to force
>> hardware replacement rather than software update.
>>
> Greetings
>
> Attempting a read of the listed url results in:
>
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access
> /~d/fcc_saner_software_practices.pdf on this server.
> Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe
>
> Do you have another way to access said item?
>
> Regards
>
> Dee
>
-- 
David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
davecb at spamcop.net           |                      -- Mark Twain

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