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The reason the FCC is only allowing the sale of state approved routers in the US?

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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Knowing how.

All routers are just Linux computers managing slightly better than average network cards. (Home routers, obviously. Beefy carrier hardware is different).

A basic setup is essentially installing Linux and then running a handful of commands for packet forwarding. The figuring out how to do it without wifi crashing will take longer because that software is wonky.