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You can run routing software on any linux machine with multiple nics. It isn't really a magic appliance. I suppose what they really mean aren't routers per se, but wifi transmitters?
No they mean routers.
And running your own router with its own OS is allowed.
Buying a prefab router from Shenzhen chock full of foreign malware is not.
Only locally produced malware is now allowed in prefab routers!
Folks definitely should be picking up learning how to setup their own router and wifi hubs, but they wont do it.
Are there any consumer routers made in the US?
Isn't TP Link a US company?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-Link
TIL! I assume theres gotta be at least some US manufacturing of routers... I hope... otherwise the US just banned using the internet in effect lol
Ubiquity is a US company, but all their stuff is made in Asia.
Linksys is a US company formerly owned by Cisco, but all their stuff is manufactured in Asia.
Netgear is a US company, but all their stuff is manufactured in Asia.
ASUS is Taiwanese.
I guess the router supplied by your ISP might be exempt?
Itd be weird to be exempt
Its really sounding like the FCC banned all routers and companies can only comply by running their own they install software on manually XD
I don't know. Since we put ours on an alter and started placing burnt offerings of RAM before it, uptime has gotten a lot better.
Appeasing the machine spirit, nice