Well, my first reaction is to buy no more TP-Link and I have a lot of it and plans for a lot more (as in a couple dozen devices today and plans for a couple dozen more).
I have never installed custom software on one of my routers and I get that TP-Link has no obligation to allow it but if they had not allowed it for technical or marketing reasons, I would not have cared but to surrender to governments in disregard of free peoples, I am offended and assume they're enemies of freedom.
Then, on the other hand, there's a TP link to this TP-Link story. A couple of years ago, Charmin reduced the size of it's toilet paper for the 6th time in 9 years. A big fan (at the time) of Charmin, I was very upset by the change and protested on their Facebook site that I would never buy Charmin again until they reversed themselves. Unfortunately, when I went into the grocery store, I found that all of the toilet paper makers did the same thing and at the same time. No matter which I bought, I had the same size. So what good was my protest when the entire industry did it at the same time? (Proof of price fixing? I think it is.)
So, what's the tp link to this TP-Link story? Well, I could refuse to buy TP-Link but it won't matter because all of the manufacturers will do the same if required by the FCC. In a few months they will all have the same limitation.
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No more TP-Link?
Well, my first reaction is to buy no more TP-Link and I have a lot of it and plans for a lot more (as in a couple dozen devices today and plans for a couple dozen more).
I have never installed custom software on one of my routers and I get that TP-Link has no obligation to allow it but if they had not allowed it for technical or marketing reasons, I would not have cared but to surrender to governments in disregard of free peoples, I am offended and assume they're enemies of freedom.
Then, on the other hand, there's a TP link to this TP-Link story. A couple of years ago, Charmin reduced the size of it's toilet paper for the 6th time in 9 years. A big fan (at the time) of Charmin, I was very upset by the change and protested on their Facebook site that I would never buy Charmin again until they reversed themselves. Unfortunately, when I went into the grocery store, I found that all of the toilet paper makers did the same thing and at the same time. No matter which I bought, I had the same size. So what good was my protest when the entire industry did it at the same time? (Proof of price fixing? I think it is.)
So, what's the tp link to this TP-Link story? Well, I could refuse to buy TP-Link but it won't matter because all of the manufacturers will do the same if required by the FCC. In a few months they will all have the same limitation.