I’m so glad they’re focusing on this instead of how shitty and expensive our home internet is.
So… all network routers?
Are there actually any US-made consumer network routers on the market? All the brands I can think of are pretty much made in Asia these days.
Ubiquiti is an American company, not sure if the tech is really MADE here though, seems like that’d be weird considering the components are all made outside the US anyway.
Ubiquiti may not be considered consumer with regards to this, but it’s pretty unclear so it’s a bit of a gamble.
It would be funny if, like, the UniFi line got banned but the EdgeOS line didn’t just based on target audience
Yeah, it’s all so ambiguous. I switched to them because they were better made and cheaper than the Netgear I was forced to replace after 1.5yrs. It’ll be interesting to see where this ends up. Probably lawsuits. Glad I’m already set for a while, I guess.
Functionally no. This will force most users to use whatever their ISP provides.
Those can’t be imported either lol. This ruling will never stand up in court.
Great, so zero network products can be sold, and we have to dispose of any existing ones in a couple years.
I guess the US won’t have any Internet anymore.
Perhaps it’s a fallback plan in case the universal Internet ID thing doesn’t work out. Gotta keep the masses stupid and uncoordinated.
Based on the language, it would seem to exclude ISP provided routers as those are not “designed to be installed by the consumer”. It also excludes anything not SoHo.
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.
It’s incredible how every day in this country continues to be unimaginably dumber than the last.
This is so stupid that I can barely even think of a nefarious reason to do it.
It’s so they can more reliably distribute their own backdoors.
But how? America doesn’t make routers. There’s no American routers to put backdoors in!
That’ll be part of the “concessions” that foreign made routers make to get approval.
Why the fuck else would the department of defense need to weigh in?
It would seem to exclude ISP provided routers =/
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.
This is a good time to remind everyone to avoid any of the major manufacturers. Get pre-built OPEN boxes and install OpenWRT. You performance and capabilities will beat the shit out of any of the other stuff anyway.
Sadly, there were a few great foreign-made manufacturers who had great hardware for this. Technically they aren’t “network routers” and just blank hardware, so probably don’t fall into the idiotic language put forth here.
I’ve got a GLiNet router with OpenWRT, running adguard on it. Best router experience I’ve ever had. I wonder how quick this ruling takes effect, might be smart to buy another while I can lol
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.
Oh so nothing would change then. Good to know.
So basically just like… the internet is banned?
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 rental routers.
Spying on citizens at best. Manipulating content at worst.
So uh, OPNSense?
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
