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

[David Collier-Brown]

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.

--dave

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