The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router

Posted Oct 11, 2015 18:58 UTC (Sun) by arnd (subscriber, #8866)
In reply to: The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router by Wol
Parent article: The new Linksys WRT1900ACS router

I think a lot of devices can be hacked to behave in bad ways on the wireless spectrum already, both softmac devices that have no firmware and those that have a proprietary firmware for the data path but not for controlling the radio.

The problem for binary-only wireless firmware is the same as for binary-only host (on the router) firmware, that it makes it impossible to fix problems, most notably the bufferbloat that is pervasive in all of them.