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

[dave14305]

All this nonsense kind of directs me to buying a reasonable x86 mini computer with 2 or 4 LAN ports and build your own router. Especially at the price listed above. That is just nuts for a home router

RAM prices might make this more complicated, but probably still worth it.

 

[nekrosoft13]

FCC ban applies to consumer grade routers. I don't know any running pfSense or OPNsense.

I heard that.. that really "stupid" shouldn't it be more important to in enterprise.

 

[jzchen]

Without going into details, two possibilities:

- Someone woke up in the morning and before taking the pills generated an entire industry damaging decision. A buddy from US based multi-billion dollar company will call and the decision will be reversed, modified, the company will be exempt, etc.

- The buddy called long time ago and a plan was made how to make even more money by eliminating the competition using "unacceptable risk" to national security reasons. A company already announced their devices are made in Texas, exempt already.

That was Musk, saying "you took away $7500/each for almost all Tesla's I sold, now give me something back in return!"

Darn Starlink stuff doesn't even support WPA3...

 

[nekrosoft13]

No.

hmm... that what I though, was just confused why would anyone be hoarding AX routers.

 

[Tech9]

was just confused why would anyone be hoarding AX routers

No one is hoarding AX routers. ASUS AX routers are not available for whatever reason. Most likely because of ASUS' own marketing. TP-Link AX routers are readily available. ASUS compete with themselves with overlapping features product lines and have supply chain issues. TP-Link is killing them on the market. And this is part of the problem in the US. TP-Link outsells everyone with >35% market share already. They want to give space to a local buddy. Let them figure it out, we don't have to worry about it North of the border.