I purchased a router from the EU. So the frequencies are different than those sold in the US.

What’s the worst that could happen running a router in the US that’s on the frequencies from another country (like UK).

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You might run into trouble with plane radar systems. Here we have built-in features that disables certain frequencies when the router notices such activity.

    In the worst case, you will get a visit by the FCC and they confiscate your device. And they will send you an invoice for their trouble.

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    As long as you configure channels you are allowed to use in the US it shouldn’t be a problem. Otherwise you might have issues with some clients not being able to connect to your wifi.

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      1 year ago

      I think there’s a couple of channels that are missing or different which is why u asked.

      Just as long as I’m not knocking planes out of the sky or scrambling my neighbours signal.

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        1 year ago

        Depends where it comes from. The vendor should have a data sheet saying what frequencies are available in which regions. You will then have to disable the frequencies not permitted in your country. Or flash a local firmware onto the device.

  • SteveTech@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Most routers have a WiFi region setting to deal with that sort of stuff, but if it doesn’t look up what channels are allowed in the US and manually set it to use those.