Can I use a domestic router in my home country?

I tried finding the answer to this but I don’t have a definitive one. I am looking at buying the AX73 router for my NTT hikari internet but I am only planning on staying in Japan for a couple of years. Seeing as this router is a little expensive (for me, at least) I was thinking of possibly using it when I go back to my home country, the UK.

Is that possible?

I’ve read that different countries use different bandwiths for WiFi so I was wondering if there is any overlap between Japan and the UK, and if not, can anyone please recommend me a router that is a bit cheaper?

Thank you in advance

6 comments
  1. I did the inverse where I brought my equipment from my country, and used Mac Address copying to replace the one the ISP gave me, so I can do my own updates and don’t have to deal with an all-japanese interface. I had a day of heart attack google translate and never again

    So probably yes, but it depends. Some ISPs do not like that and will refuse to give you tech support, as they also do here

    The other thing you can do is use your equipment in bridge mode with the ISP supplied equipment. That’s the best of both worlds and less fuss

  2. As long as the devices of where you’ll live accept the bandwidth you’ll be fine. Most wireless devices these days accept 2.4g and 5g.

  3. Depends on how strict the UK is regarding radio interference laws. While I haven’t looked at the frequencies, it’s possible that your JP router could be able to operate on frequencies that aren’t permitted in the UK. In many countries, they are quite strict about transmission frequency control and there can be surprisingly large penalties for violations.

    That said, the likelihood it would be detected or that you would be identified as the offender is probably quite low.

  4. Usually it’s illegal to use a foreign router in most countries but you’d never get caught for it.

  5. Seems to be no problem. The TP-Link Archer AX73 probably lets you choose the country on setup – as it’s an internationally available model from a global company. Otherwise just don’t use automatic wifi channels and set them to fixed channels that are allowed (reference: country table below each frequencies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels) in the country where you use it.

  6. Depends, if its a corded router, likely not because the voltages will be different. If its cordless, the battery system might be interchangeable. I know the makita series batteries are interchangeable with the US ones.

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