That's interesting. When my mac came to the US with me, I had no issues of this. my mac was set up on my friend's network in her home. Hmm, very interesting.
On 15 Apr 2010, at 12:20, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > Hi all, > > I intended to post this months ago and forgot. On a trip to the States back > in January I decided to take advantage of the excellent exchange rate and > buy a 13" MBP. I saved a fortune I assure you. > > However, on returning home I discovered something I wasn't previously aware > of. The wireless card in the US models is actually configured differently > from those sold in Europe. The reason is this. FCC regulations in the > States means that wireless routers only broadcast on channels 1-11. In > Europe, we can broadcast on channels 1-13. So, wireless cards on Mac > machines purchased in the US are only set up to operate on channels 1-11. > All of my routers were configured to broadcast on channel 13, so my nice > shiny new machine purchased in the US didn't see any of my routers. > > It was a very simple fix to adjust the channels downwards, and all is now > fine. However if you go to, say a public WIFI area, or are using your > machine on a network where you can't control the channel on which the > wireless signal is broadcast, it might, just might, be a problem for you to > purchase your machine in the US. As an aside, for anyone travelling to > Europe (or Japan) with a US machine, if you can't pick up a wireless signal > that others can, this could be a reason. > > This may, and probably will, affect only a few people but I pass it on for > what it's worth. > > Cheers > > Dónal > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
