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Is it maybe legal to jam wifi signals if either a) your jamming is restricted to inside your private building, with absolutely no leakage outside, or b) the sam
by swores 3y ago
Is it maybe legal to jam wifi signals if either a) your jamming is restricted to inside your private building, with absolutely no leakage outside, or b) the same except regarding property lines rather than physical walls (e.g. if you had a weak jammer in the middle of your private field, whose jamming signals were undetectable at each edge of the field)?
My guess would be that A is legal and B might not be, but I've never had reason to look up the relevant laws and I don't know if it would be the same in different countries either.
But yeah, I doubt most purchases of portable jammers are for legal use.
- gh02t 3y agob) is not legal, people have gotten fined for interfering with RF signals on their own property (e.g. stores, restaurants etc). People interfering with GPS or cellular on their own property is also common and highly illegal, and I assume the same laws would apply to wifi. Problem is you can't stop RF propagating off your property lines in that scenario, and noise jamming in the wifi bands can effect other more sensitive equipment that operate in the same bands. But like most things FCC related, you can likely get away with it if you aren't egregious. a) I've never been quite sure. People do testing in Faraday cages so there has to be some exception. I'm pretty sure as long as you aren't interfering externally and are being responsible nobody is gonna fine you.