XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > The BSSID would be the same, but the SSID would change (I would be   
   > careful to do a factory reset to the router before returning it).   
      
   We can make a list of consumer routers which allow the BSSID to be changed.   
      
   Note that almost all (if not all) routers allow the internal-facing BSSID   
   to be changed but we're talking about the externally-facing BSSID (which is   
   the BSSID associated with the access point SSID that needs to be changed).   
      
   We'd still need to flash that consumer router with OpenWrt, DD-WRT, Tomato,   
   etc., though, because typical firmware doesn't allow that BSSID to change.   
      
   Worse, even if we use custom router firmware, the chipset driver still has   
   to expose the ability to override the hardware MAC.   
      
   For example, Broadcom's closed-source drivers don't expose MAC override   
   reliably while Atheros/Qualcomm chipsets open drivers allow setting custom   
   MAC addresses per interface. Mediatek chipsets generally allow MAC override   
   in OpenWrt, since drivers are open source.   
      
   So, for example, any Netgear routger with a Broadcom chipset will be   
   problematic if I want to change my SSID every year (or so).   
      
   But a Netgear R7800 (Nighthawk X4S AC2600), for example, uses Qualcomm   
   IPQ8065 SoC + QCA9984 radios which are fully supported by OpenWrt.   
      
   Likewise with the Netgear R7500v2 (Qualcomm IPQ8064 SoC + QCA9880 radios)   
   and the Netgear WNDR3700 / WNDR3800 (Atheros AR7161 SoC + AR9220/AR9223   
   radios) and the Netgear R6100 (Qualcomm-Atheros AR9344 SoC) routers.   
      
   My router (Netgear Nighthawk AX12 12-Stream Tri-Band AX WiFi Router Model   
   RAX200) is using the Broadcom chipset (BCM49408 SoC) unfortunately.   
      
   In the future, I'm going to only buy routers that allow the outward-facing   
   SSID to change, which basically means no router with Broadcom chipsets.   
      
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