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Re:Clearing the Air on Wi-Fi Software Updates by creshal on Monday November 16, 2015 @03:34AM (#10573285)
The irony is that DD-WRT never touched anything within FCC legislation – it still uses the vendors' proprietary WiFi firmwares for the actual radios. It just makes everything around that suck less.

The worst you can do with DD-WRT is intentionally set a wrong country code.

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Re:Clearing the Air on Wi-Fi Software Updates by JoshTriplett on Monday November 16, 2015 @03:48AM (#10573321)
> The worst you can do with DD-WRT is intentionally set a wrong country code.

Which lets you transmit on unauthorized frequencies, such as channel 14.

But you can hardly do that by accident.

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Re:Clearing the Air on Wi-Fi Software Updates by creshal on Monday November 16, 2015 @05:48AM (#10573709)
> But you can hardly do that by accident.

Exactly, and plenty of closed source router firmwares expose the same option. And radios (Japanese radios can listen on German police frequencies, I think), etc. pp.; basically everything with an antenna that's sold in more than one country.

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