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

[o1bigtenor]

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

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Dee