US bans sale of all *new model* non-US made wifi routers

[Viktor Jaep]

You better start working on RGNMON.

Oh you know I will.

 

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They did this with mobile phones and masts/repeaters a few years ago. Our cellphone coverage went to 10% of what it was previously, with the network only able to handle 5 or 6 calls per transmitter. Battery drain on cellphones and inability to make calls, mixed with much poorer security.

Might I ask which country this is?

I've been tracking this over in Germany where there are a couple of different architectures are in play for the 5G deployment (along with the 4G Huawei/ZTE ripout)...

Feel free to PM me if you rather not reply in thread...

 

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Yes, this is absurd. We just need to let the dust settle and see what pay-to-play options are offered so that companies can buy their way out of this.

I agree - for our US based forum members, there is always the recourse of reaching out to your senators and representatives - many have email, but sometimes a written letter is more effective - just keep in clear and concise - describe the problem, propose a solution and a clear call to action.

For those who are not based in the US - be mindful, as this could easily happen in your country (or in the EU, any of the member countries that would apply to all)...

For those who are inclined to do more - OpenWRT is out there, along with Tomato, DD-WRT, RMerlin, and other FOSS distributions. Support them - can be code contributions, financial support, etc... they can't break the GPL, so that is always a chance...

There is always a way - and with the current US admin, the sky seems to always be falling somewhere, which really is their point...

 

[Tech9]

For those who are inclined to do more - OpenWRT is out there, along with Tomato, DD-WRT, RMerlin, and other FOSS distributions.

For the majority of SNB Forum members the only available option is Asuswrt-Merlin and its existence depends on ASUS. Nothing else runs on the popular around hardware. In fact most users purchased specific ASUS devices only because of Asuswrt-Merlin.

Might I ask which country this is?

UK

 

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For the majority of SNB Forum members the only available option is Asuswrt-Merlin and its existence depends on ASUS. Nothing else runs on the popular around hardware. In fact most users purchased specific ASUS devices only because of Asuswrt-Merlin.

Not all routers/aps are broadcom based - there are Asus router/ap's running on Mediatek and QC-Atheros chipsets

I get it that most AsusWRT users here are using Broadcom based devices, but that's not really relevant... the work that Eric does could easily move over to Mediatek or QC-Atheros devices, as it's all middle and upper layer stuff...

 

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UK

you're out of context here - not your question to answer...

 

[Tech9]

not your question to answer

I know, but my memory works this way. I know the country, the city, the ISP provider, the address, the phone number and how the place looks for this member. Once I see something I may recall it after many months.

 

[RMerlin]

nyone know if any ASUS wifi 8 routers have cleared FCC approval?

None has appeared yet on the FCC public database AFAIK, unless that website is out of date - been a while since I've last monitored it. I'm only starting to see traces of Wifi 8-related code appear in the GPL sources, so it's probably still way too early.

Who knows what that means

Politicians themselves probably don't either.

ASUS won't stop supporting their devices Worldwide because of US policy.

Or they could just do what they recently did in Germany due to similar legal silliness: simply stop offering the downloads on their regional support site.

how many times the policy will be edited to accommodate specific cases is unknown and the final result may be closer to "No Change". Time will tell.

I remember the FCC issues a few years ago where they tried to forbid any third party firmware usage in a router (they even mentionned DD-WRT by its name in the public document). To have things toned down drastically after the ruckus was raised by the community at large. The final result was that manufacturers just had to ensure that regulatory-related settings in the radio had to be locked down so not to be overridable by the end user.

And everything stayed business as usual for DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Asuswrt-Merlin, etc...

So, pretty sure none of this will end up as-is in its final form. And if it does, either loopholes will be found, or the next administration will go back on things once the lobbyists start pouring money in.