Get them pitchforks ready.
And guillotines.
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What the fuck are they doing?
Taking a huge payment from Comcast and Verizon would be my guess. The language appears to exclude ISP-owned routers.
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Spying on citizens at best. Manipulating content at worst.
Quick question. What would happen if China decided to get angry about this, and stop selling 100% of their goods to American companies unless they allowed 100% of their goods to be sold without restrictions?
Global economic collapse.
Still less of an impact than whatever the fuck trump is doing.
I’m thinking exempt based on the FCC language of “designed to be installed by the consumer”. ISP provided routers are usually hooked up by the installer tech. Which makes me wonder which ISP chortled orange man’s balls to get this passed.
What does this mean for the ISP supplied units?
I’m thinking exempt based on the FCC language of “designed to be installed by the consumer”. ISP provided routers are usually hooked up by the installer tech. Which makes me wonder which ISP chortled orange man’s balls to get this passed.
At least round here if there’s no wiring to be done the ISP just couriers the boxes and lets the customer plug them in.
They’re always rentals though, correct It’ll be interesting to see which way it swings, for sure. Stupid stupid rule either way.
I set up service in a new state last year with Comcast and was shocked that there was NOT a rental fee for the router/modem any longer. But idk if that's them being forced to compete more than they had to in my previous area, or if they cut the fee across the board.
So basically just like... the internet is banned?
You will have the same type of net as China, walled off from the rest of us
So uh, OPNSense?
Been on it for years, but reminds me that it desperately needs a hardware upgrade. Seems like now is the right time.
Anyone have any good suggestions? I’m still running an old pcengines apu2.
Constructing the pillars of the bigly yuge firewall of america
What does this mean for enterprise hardware, specifically Cisco?
Nothing, because laws are only for wealthy entities that can afford to pay the tedious fines. Us proletariat poors have to comply with this shit while they look down at us.
Only consumer products are covered
This must mean the ones already in our homes and offices are perfectly safe.
I wonder if this means the rest of the world gets cheap routers for a while, or whether prices go up because the demand isn’t there to make them available at volume anymore.