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The US bans all new foreign-made network routers (www.engadget.com)
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[–] Tarambor@lemmy.world 89 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The only slight problem with this is that there are no routers made in the USA.

[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Well, you can run your own router on your own hardware but other than that, agreed.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that hardware also made in the US ><

[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

My point was mostly that the concept of a router can be executed by any computer with more than one NIC.

Trump isn’t disallowing computers from outside the US, surely, only stuff that looks like routers. They’ll have a hard time defining what a router is.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I wonder how the dumbasses licking his boots will feel about brands like Qotom/etc making high interface mini pcs- whether they consider them "routers" under this. I hope we don't have to go back to what I did 10 years ago- cheap intel desktops with 3-4 nics.

[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But where is that hardware made

[–] Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

get iron from local mine and go make some relays

[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

But where were those tools made?

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

well, Trump has a worryingly faint and ever-changing idea of where the USA borders end...

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

All it needs is a bribe from Cisco, and it's no problem anymore. Probably.

[–] excral@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

New business venture: sell computers that totally aren't routers, pinky promise, but just randomly happen to run OpenWrt perfectly and have all the needed hardware.