Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US.
$150 will get you a mini PC that you can run OPNsense on. Hopefully they don’t ban WiFi access points next.
there is not much wifi access points that are not routers at the same time and i doubt that said regulation would make such a minor a distinction.
unfortunately we can only guess, because only official document i have found is as vague as the news reports.
www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist
Routers^ produced in a foreign country, except routers which have been granted a Conditional Approval by DoW or DHS.
There are many access points that are not routers.
Access points and routers are usually separate once you get away from the consumer grade stuff. The people that run OPNsense at home often use MikroTik or Ubiquiti access points.
There are. Just need to shop in the business side of the store and not consumer. At worst pro-sumer.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
there is not much wifi access points that are not routers at the same time and i doubt that said regulation would make such a minor a distinction.
unfortunately we can only guess, because only official document i have found is as vague as the news reports.
www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
There are many access points that are not routers.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Access points and routers are usually separate once you get away from the consumer grade stuff. The people that run OPNsense at home often use MikroTik or Ubiquiti access points.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
There are. Just need to shop in the business side of the store and not consumer. At worst pro-sumer.