Jun 20 16:39 2016, Joe Delahaye wrote to Markus Reschke:
MR>> Presumably it's more likely just marketing since tons of other MR>> routers are also supported by OpenWrt.
JD> This is in relation to the new FCC ruling in the USA. It was to stop
Not just USA, also EU :(
JD> upgrades that would let the user increase TX power from the radios. JD> The simplest way to do that was to not let any other firmware be used JD> other then from the manufacturer. Almost all have gone that route, JD> except for that series of LinkSys routers I mentioned
The question is, how long will they get away with that? TP-Link is compliant, but their solution is quite simple to circumvent. I don't know how other manufactures "protect" their WLAN devices from tampering, but I'd assume it's nothing fancy, i.e. easy to break. It has to be cheap :)
