[Cialug] FCC to Make DD-WRT on 5GHz Wireless Routers Illegal?

[Barry Von Ahsen]

you mean like mediacom's whole home wireless?


-barry



> On Sep 4, 2015, at 6:35 AM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Maybe the companies sees what the auto and heavy equipment industries are
> doing and recognized a chance to turn a one-time router purchase into a
> long-term router subscription and asked people in the FCC to create these
> rules for that purpose.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Matt <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:
> 
>> Of course the FCC isn't TRYING to ban DD-WRT, OpenWRT, or other open
>> source firmwares.  They just don't understand that it is a trillion times
>> easier for a company to sign the whole firmware with a 4096-bit private key
>> than it is to separate the chunk of code that runs the radios and only sign
>> it.  It's also cheaper for the company to utilize SDRs than it is to
>> develop and ASIC with the functionality of the radios baked in, and even if
>> it wasn't that would prevent the company from ever upgrading the radios
>> should a bug of some sort be found after production began.
>> 
>> What will end up happening is the FCC will put out some
>> poorly/loosely-worded regulation that the industry will panic about, and
>> everything from the router firmware all the way down to the flashing of the
>> wifi activity LED will be buried under ninety tons of DRM/encryption.
>> Everyone who wants a guest network or any other neat feature from their
>> next router will end up having to either buy a $350 top of the line router,
>> get a new/used/refurbished enterprise (Cisco, anyone?) router, or build a
>> custom router using an old PC and a WiFi card just to get that one feature
>> they need.  All this while everyone else ends up having to go back to their
>> crappy original firmware with a terrible feature set, clunky web interface,
>> and awful network monitoring capabilities (if any at all) when they decide
>> to upgrade.
>> 
>> -- Matt (N0BOX)
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/3/2015 11:21 PM, Scott Yates wrote:
>> 
>>> Not so much maybe:
>>> 
>>> https://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20150831/07164532118/no-fcc-is-not-intentionally-trying-to-kill-third-party-wi-fi-router-firmware.shtml
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 10:19 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> What?
>>>> 
>>>> http://hackaday.com/2015/09/02/save-wifi-act-now-to-save-wifi-from-the-fcc/
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