Routers with Custom Firmware?

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kgrevemberg

kgrevemberg

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Hi guys,

Been thinking about messing around with loading after market firmware into a router.

But is this still possible? Someone had told me before that ISP's were starting to ban this practice for some reason.

Anywho, could someone tell me if this is still possible and what are my options for hardware and firmware?

Thanks
 
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The ISP only have restrictions on modems. You can't load third party firmware on anything that contains a modem unless you want to be really ambitious and link your own kernels. The drivers are not open source so they can not be integrated and distributed. When you are running a router the ISP can't tell what firmware you are running. They likely do not care there is not anything you can do to affect their connection.

Now there was some discussion about preventing third party images by the governments. This was because you could mess with the radio settings to get it outside the licenses. Mostly it involved setting your region to russia so you could set certain channels manually.

The radio chipset manufactures made some...
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n0ns3ns3

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yes you can load the aftermarket FW to some routers.
Most wildly used firmwares are dd-wrt, tomato, open-wrt.
Most common routers to mess with are the ones from Asus, Netgear, Linksys, some TP-link models.
you should check the device support list of the firmware you interested in.

P.S.
ISPs can not control what router you use to connect. modem is as far as they can go. If you talk about routers that are provided by ISPs - who cares, they are crap anyway fpr advanced uses.
 
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bill001g

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The ISP only have restrictions on modems. You can't load third party firmware on anything that contains a modem unless you want to be really ambitious and link your own kernels. The drivers are not open source so they can not be integrated and distributed. When you are running a router the ISP can't tell what firmware you are running. They likely do not care there is not anything you can do to affect their connection.

Now there was some discussion about preventing third party images by the governments. This was because you could mess with the radio settings to get it outside the licenses. Mostly it involved setting your region to russia so you could set certain channels manually.

The radio chipset manufactures made some changes.

Note the really fun stuff related to the actual radio transmissions is a black box provided in binary images you load into the radio chips. I wanted to do something simple like display the number of re-transmitted packets but there is no command provided by the radio manufacture so it can't be done.
 
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