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The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Router Models Made Outside US (www.pcmag.com)
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The surprising order means any new Wi-Fi router models sold in the country must be US-made, or receive an exemption from the Pentagon or Homeland Security Department.

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[–] teft@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Routers are not modems.

Put your router behind the company issued modem and then VPN out.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every broadband connection I've had looks at the mac address of whatever is behind the modem, the modem essentially passes it through.

[–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No it doesn’t. Go learn about networking, the OSI model, and ARP tables if you believe that.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Be less of an asshole, it's free. I've been sniffing packets from cable modems since the 90s. I even remember the mac address of my first network card - 00a0cc52cac7, because mediaone gave out persistent hostnames based on your mac address before they were bought by at&t. I once putty'd into my machine from Katmandu just because I could. Incidentally, when I called at&t support to find out if this would continue, their support rep had no idea what I was talking about, and after I mentioned mac addresses, he suggested I call apple.

[–] teft@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

It's not being an asshole. It's correcting misinformation. There is no tone on the internet so if you read someone as being an asshole it might be a you problem, not a them problem. Sniffing packets doesn't mean you understand networking as evidenced by the fact you think the modem is broadcasting your computer's MAC address.

Just go read up on networking and you'll realize that wouldn't make sense.