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    From Matthew Munson@VERT/IUTOPIA to ALL on Friday, March 27, 2026 10:33:00
    I have a Asus RT-AX82U router that is almost 5 years old, should i go for a Wifi 7 router
    before the FCC restrictions take hold?

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Matthew Munson on Saturday, March 28, 2026 12:25:08
    Matthew Munson wrote to ALL <=-

    I have a Asus RT-AX82U router that is almost 5 years old, should i go
    for a Wifi 7 router
    before the FCC restrictions take hold?

    It's either going to get rescinded because it's a stupid EO, will turn
    into a cash/info grab ("Sure, you can sell your router here, it'll take
    a $100,000 yearly certification fee and Palantir will arrange an audit")
    and they'll still be available, just the costs will be passed on to
    consumers and we'll be dealing with potential backdoors.

    So, yeah, buy it now and throw OpenWRT on it as soon as possible.



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, March 28, 2026 18:51:11
    Re: Re: routers
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Sat Mar 28 2026 12:25 pm

    All are made outside of the USA. Starlink is "assembled" in the USA, even though the components are manufactured overseas.

    I was wondering who even makes routers in the USA. According to Google, Starlink makes routers in Texas, and Cisco & Cradlepoint make enterprise & industrial-grade routers. So our US-based routers would be fairly limited, unless other companies selling routers in the US decide to make their routers in the US too. And if the concern is security (so I've heard), I wonder if it would even mean anything if those companies made their routers in the US? I imagine they'd be putting the same firmware on them.

    This is sort of a reason I like to use open router firmware like DD-WRT, OpenWRT, & such (the main reason is I just like having the configurability that these 3rd-party firmware options allow, and the more frequent updates they get, which should include security updates).

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sunday, March 29, 2026 10:18:59
    I have a Asus RT-AX82U router that is almost 5 years old, should i go for a Wifi 7 router
    before the FCC restrictions take hold?

    It's either going to get rescinded because it's a stupid EO, will turn
    into a cash/info grab ("Sure, you can sell your router here, it'll take
    a $100,000 yearly certification fee and Palantir will arrange an audit")
    and they'll still be available, just the costs will be passed on to
    consumers and we'll be dealing with potential backdoors.

    So, yeah, buy it now and throw OpenWRT on it as soon as possible.

    I wonder if the exclusions for commercial routers cover those folks who are using whatever their online provider gives them. If it does, it would make
    me suspect that many online providers are for this.


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