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How do you know? As your link says, they intend to prohibit selling hardware which can be modified to violate FCC regs. Since 3rd party firmware allows such vi
by qb45 11y ago
How do you know?
As your link says, they intend to prohibit selling hardware which can be modified to violate FCC regs. Since 3rd party firmware allows such violations, devices get locked down.
How else are you going to explain the existence of separate US firmware which refuses to upgrade to international firmwares?
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=990535 http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=990535
- eli 11y agoThe link does not say that. The FCC is gathering information for a proposed rule that could potentially impact hardware sold in the future. Nobody is being forced to do anything yet. There is no rule that prevents DD-WRT from being installed on a device. So why is TP-Link locking down their firmware even though they aren't required to? You have to ask them.
- qb45 11y ago> So why is TP-Link locking down their firmware even though they aren't required to? You have to ask them. If you read TFA you'll learn that somebody did just that. Adam Longwill 09:26:19 pm Wow. Thank you. I'm impressed with your digging And this limitation is due to FCC rule clarifications in 2015? And not some other reason Camille 09:28:15 pm Right, due to FCC
- lanaius 11y agoYou mean the original submitted article? Because in that article the person asks IF they locked them down, not WHY. There's still no answer as to why TP-Link thought it necessary to react to a nonexistent rule.