• Sineljora@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      3 days ago

      They’ve played us for fools. Any x86 device or old computer with two ports can be a router. Make your own today!

        • cenzorrll@piefed.ca
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          3 days ago

          I dug mine out of the various cables box a few days ago so I could set up a little mini network to practice networking without disrupting anything. Turns out it’s still getting firmware updates with dd-wrt, not sure if it’s truly still supported, but still.

    • jwt@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      You’re forgetting those MikroHick routers from Bumfuck, Alabama. They route all packages to “go back to their own country”.

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    3 days ago

    So your costs of renting routers from your ISP are about to skyrocket.

    What routers are even made in the US? Likely none that ISPs are currently using.

  • jwiggler@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    3 days ago

    Anyone know if there are immediate practical implications of this? I get foreign made routers are now deemed a security risk, but

    Previously purchased routers can still be used and retailers can still sell models that were approved by the prior FCC policies.

    so it seems not much is changed? I’m curious what this means practically in the near term.

    still quite concerning and stupid .