Posted by moonka 1 day ago
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adds-routers-produced-forei...
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-278A1.pdf
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74787w149zo
https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/fcc-bans-foreign-made-rou...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/24/fcc-just-banned-the-imp...
It's all a bunch of very expensive kind of dodgy Compex cards, used for industrial or prototype purposes. Be prepared to spend $300+ for a single 4x4 MIMO card. And then you want to go dual band right?
Thankfully the MediaTek offerings are somewhat available and much much much cheaper, but reports are that driver quality is just absymal.
Meanwhile the openwrt table of hardware for wifi 6 and wifi 7 is a bare trickle already, and inceasingly not consumer routers but SBC. Thanks for the FCC messing things up brutally already, back in 2015, with requirements to make sure users couldn't possibly do anything out of spec, requiring these systems to be locked down. They almost banned open source outright, but in practice it feels like the requirements are high enough that they practically did. https://toh.openwrt.org/?features=wifi_be https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/tp-li...
Frelling FCC! What dastardly deeds done against civilization! We would be so much more secure & protected, the bar would be so much higher if open source / openwrt was allowed to compete. You messed everything up already!!
Thats what this is all about: government level blackmail.
[0] https://mono.si/
The fact that they haven't updated that webpage with new information since October 1st 2025 seems to indicate bad news...
Shortly put, they're going through hardware startup woes but will probably make it out the other end just fine.
... at the same time, I don't think I'd send $100 to a site with no contact/ownership/company info to begin with.
No.
And you have to accept living with / mitigating that e.g. that isolated wifi access point theoretically receives and will need to apply software updates. /s People seem to treat it as some kind of heresy if you simply deny such appliances internet access.
If wireless security is the concern, maybe other people here know better but I don't believe anything convenient will be "secure" in the strongest sense of the word.
I keep recommending the free version of Sophos firewall for home users. It's still a bit of a bear to configure.
FCC maintains a list of equipment and services (Covered List) that have been determined to “pose an unacceptable risk to the national security.." FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign-Made Consumer Routers..