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澳政府要求志愿者扔掉数千台仍可用的测试路由器
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数千台SamKnows路由器在澳大利亚政府项目结束后被远程禁用。该项目由澳大利亚竞争与消费者委员会（ACCC）于2020年发起，志愿者通过路由器测试并报告宽带速度与性能，重点监测NBN等固定线路宽带服务。这些路由器的任务已完成并停止运行。
Last week, thousands of SamKnows routers were bricked after a government program ran its course.
In 2020, as part of a program conducted by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian government's chief competition regulator, thousands of volunteers received routers to help test and report on the typical speed and performance of broadband plans in Australia. (More specifically, the Measuring Broadband Australia (MBA) program targeted fixed-line broadband services provided over the NBN, Australia's government-owned wholesale open-access broadband network, as well as services delivered over other access networks.)
According to the final report that the ACCC distributed, the routers are whiteboxes that were “supplied by SamKnows” and that “perform tests to measure internet performance using test servers maintained by SamKnows and hosted in Australia.”Read full article
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