Team 3309 SuperRouter (TM)

[dcarr]

Post #5 on this thread was not accurate information and was posted by another team member who didn't understand the gist of this thread. This is all done in jest so should be considered a "joke"

Just to clarify-this was a project embarked on for fun, not for actual use in the competition or in any real-world applications.

This router has provided poor performance overall in our testing (which happens primarily outdoors) and as it's worth only $29.99 we decided to embark on some experimenting with DD-WRT

We increased the Tx Power which did improve ping times but reliability is not perfect. As we are not using this router for any actual applications (replaced with a couple of WRT54G's, completely stock, which work very well) FCC violations shouldn't be relevant and we'll make sure to keep this thing out of production environments.

I hope somebody got a few chuckles out of this Perhaps we should have waited until April Fools!

Good luck at your competitions everyone!

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by Friarbots

We increased the Tx Power which did improve ping times but reliability is not perfect. As we are not using this router for any actual applications (replaced with a couple of WRT54G's, completely stock, which work very well) FCC violations shouldn't be relevant

sigh.
If you modify a type-accepted device you have voided (as in nullified, removed) its type acceptance.
Allowing a non-type accepted device to emit Radio Energy* outside a screen room is cause for FCC action (in the USA). It does not matter if you use the equipment or not.

Will they catch you? Unlikely.
Will they fine you if they do catch you? Probably not
Is the potential fine above $100,000? Yes.

Your call.


* (Specifically, energy above a certain level, which is measured as a field strength at a certain distance. A microwatt from an 802.11 device exceeds this threshold, that's well over 1/1000 of normal power)

I'm just trying to tell you that you're breaking the law, and you should stop.