# New FCC rules may prevent you from loading OpenWRT/DDWRT/Tomato on your router

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**Created:** [July 28, 2015, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-fcc-rules-may-prevent-you-from-loading-openwrt-ddwrt-tomato-on-your-router/272746 "2015-07-28T11:12:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![evane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@evane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/evane)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-fcc-rules-may-prevent-you-from-loading-openwrt-ddwrt-tomato-on-your-router/272746/1 "2015-07-28T11:12:22Z")

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> **[New FCC Rules May Prevent Installing OpenWRT on WiFi Routers](https://www.cnx-software.com/2015/07/27/new-fcc-rules-may-prevent-installing-openwrt-on-wifi-routers/)**
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> Many cheap WiFi routers are sold with the vendor firmware, but the most popular ones likely also support OpenWRT, which some users may prefer as it is much more customizable. However, this may soon become more difficult according to a talk at the...

Really idiotic and shortsighted if it happens.

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**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-fcc-rules-may-prevent-you-from-loading-openwrt-ddwrt-tomato-on-your-router/272746/2 "2015-07-28T11:22:08Z")

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That will end well

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**Author:** ![Bastinado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@Bastinado](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bastinado)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-fcc-rules-may-prevent-you-from-loading-openwrt-ddwrt-tomato-on-your-router/272746/3 "2015-07-29T17:38:58Z")

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FCC is a self certification… there is no testing laboratory that it has to pass through. The designers of the product can state it meets FCC from the factory. Once the product is in the hands of consumers, the consumers have every right to do whatever they want with it. Apple lost the case against people jailbreaking their iPhones. This would be no different.

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**Author:** ![BOBBYGRV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BOBBYGRV](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BOBBYGRV)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-fcc-rules-may-prevent-you-from-loading-openwrt-ddwrt-tomato-on-your-router/272746/4 "2015-07-29T17:49:35Z")

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Is this because people are running VSPs through their router using DDWRT?