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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by bsder on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:00AM (#9959759)
Probably somebody who has the spectrum right above the 2.4GHz ISM band complained.

Given the overcrowding of the 2.4GHz spectrum, I suspect that people were starting to use DD-WRT to run on Channel 14, which is a no-no in North America.

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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by sschueller on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @03:08AM (#9959955)
That would probably be XM Sirius satellite radio (spectrum right below). They have perviously tried to have the FCC go after 2.4 GHz Wifi [1]

[1] http://www.geek.com/news/satellite-radio-worried-about-wi-fi...

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Re:New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Rout... by bsder on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @05:55PM (#9964800)
Below isn't as big a deal as above.

I don't know of any WiFi chips that explicitly allow you to go below channel 1 (I know of a few that would let you go below if you twizzled the PLL directly, but generally that was very hackish) and they certainly never test there.

Whereas, nobody designs a WiFi chip that doesn't actually go to Channel 14.

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