> 2) the FCC doesn't look kindly upon functionality that ignores regulatory limits being available to end customers. It was already not legal for Intel to add this in the first place, and they certainly won't help you reinstate it.
Not my clown, not my circus.
If the wifi firmware thinks the regulatory area is ID (Indonesia) it's wrong anyway
> WiFi chips should probably have some fuse in them that decides what regulatory region they were made for
Yes let's block most of resale of used chip and make the problem worse by having the remaining market just be for chips for a "nice" regulatory region that has the channels you want even if it shouldn't! /s
No, the answer is to fix the sar logic so that if it gives obviously wrong results, the correct setting can be passed to the firmware.
It's up to the customer to obey the limits, and this feature wouldn't make it easy for customers to "ignore regulatory limits" but do the exact opposite: allow them to OBEY the regulatory limits while the setting clearly does the opposite for now (unless Indonesia is a subset of the US SAR settings, which I don't think it is)
If my wifi think I'm not in the US, I will tell it yes, indeed we are, and it's on me if I lie to software. Most people will not lie. Why make it harder to do the right things?
Not my clown, not my circus.
If the wifi firmware thinks the regulatory area is ID (Indonesia) it's wrong anyway
> WiFi chips should probably have some fuse in them that decides what regulatory region they were made for
Yes let's block most of resale of used chip and make the problem worse by having the remaining market just be for chips for a "nice" regulatory region that has the channels you want even if it shouldn't! /s
No, the answer is to fix the sar logic so that if it gives obviously wrong results, the correct setting can be passed to the firmware.
It's up to the customer to obey the limits, and this feature wouldn't make it easy for customers to "ignore regulatory limits" but do the exact opposite: allow them to OBEY the regulatory limits while the setting clearly does the opposite for now (unless Indonesia is a subset of the US SAR settings, which I don't think it is)
If my wifi think I'm not in the US, I will tell it yes, indeed we are, and it's on me if I lie to software. Most people will not lie. Why make it harder to do the right things?