{"id":243588,"date":"2026-07-08T18:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/aussie-govt-tells-volunteers-to-throw-out-thousands-of-functioning-test-routers\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:10:16","slug":"aussie-govt-tells-volunteers-to-throw-out-thousands-of-functioning-test-routers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/aussie-govt-tells-volunteers-to-throw-out-thousands-of-functioning-test-routers\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie gov&#8217;t tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Last week, thousands of SamKnows routers were bricked after a government program ran its course.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, as part of a program conducted by the Australian Competition &amp; Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian government&#8217;s chief competition regulator, thousands of volunteers received routers to help\u00a0test and report on the typical speed and performance of broadband plans in Australia. (More specifically, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accc.gov.au\/by-industry\/telecommunications-and-internet\/telecommunications-monitoring\/measuring-broadband-australia-program\">Measuring Broadband Australia<\/a> (MBA) program targeted fixed-line broadband services provided over the NBN, Australia&#8217;s government-owned wholesale open-access broadband network, as well as services delivered over other access networks.)<\/p>\n<p>According to the final report that the ACCC distributed, the routers are whiteboxes that were \u201csupplied by SamKnows\u201d and that \u201cperform tests to measure internet performance using test servers maintained by SamKnows and hosted in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/thousands-of-routers-bricked-after-government-program-concludes-in-australia\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/thousands-of-routers-bricked-after-government-program-concludes-in-australia\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, thousands of SamKnows routers were bricked after a government program ran its course. 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