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> The reality is that these WiFi chips should probably have some fuse in them that decides what regulatory region they were made for and then run off that, but
by aidenn0 4y ago
> The reality is that these WiFi chips should probably have some fuse in them that decides what regulatory region they were made for and then run off that, but you can see the business people losing their mind over that: now you need to have a hundred different SKUs and worse you need to understand your distribution chain. So a software setting it is, and then you see why the FCC is upset.
So you need to travel with like a dozen WiFi cards? Setting the region in software is a feature to all travelers...
- supertrope 4y agoGovernments and businesses make international travel more inconvenient through the trade offs they make because most people don’t travel. Selling a solution to these cross border problems is another revenue stream. Some appliances aren’t 100-240V. Geolocation enforces region based pricing. Cell phone plan costs vary by several orders of magnitude.
- rvba 4y agoCan this "open" option to switch firmware even cause any real damage? Millions of people travel each year with those chips and nothing happens?