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Even if you could technically make it work, I'd be very nervous around the legalities of that. Or is the Wi-Fi spectrum so unregulated that you can run without any certification at all?


Certification has to do power of the signal and frequency. licensing is not required in some frequency bands like in 2.4 GHz used by WiFi.


WiFi equipment (and pretty much every other radio) requires certification in order to be sold in every country I am aware of. WiFI doesn't require a license to operate, but that doesn't mean you can just use any hardware you like (though I think there may be exceptions for hardware you build yourself, at least in the US).




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