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posted by n1 on Thursday August 04 2016, @03:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the open-carefully dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The Federal Communications Commission's Enforcement Bureau has reached a $200,000 settlement with TP-Link in regards to selling in the US routers that could operate at output levels higher that allowed by FCC rules.

At the same time, TP-Link has also agreed to work with the open-source community and Wi-Fi chipset manufacturers to enable consumers to install third-party firmware on their Wi-Fi routers.

Source: Help Net Security


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  • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:42PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:42PM (#384103)

    Custom firmware should let you lower the radio output as well.

    Though from my limited experience with CB radios, I know nobody does.

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  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Friday August 05 2016, @09:20AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Friday August 05 2016, @09:20AM (#384431) Homepage Journal

    Well, lower is fine. And yeah, people using cheesed CB sets cause all sorts of fun bleedover. (Un)fortunately, CB is surronded by ham bands on both sides in the spectrum so it doesn't hugely effect most other radio operations.

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