Ah no Nick purchasing over there is not out of the question. I have to say I've been using my US-purchased machine since January with no problems. However, I can envisage a situation where I'm on a network which I don't control and where I can't change the broadcast channel. Raising it is probably me just being picky but I'd prefer if there was some kind of setting I could adjust to change the locale of the card or something.
Cheers Dónal -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen Sent: 15 April 2010 14:14 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Non-US people buying a Mac in the US: Warning. Hi, Man, I was thinking of doing the same thing. The exchange rate is excellent, and we pay a fortune just to get the Macbooks. Not the Pro ones, but just the regular ones. I guess that plan is out of the question. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Apr 15, 2010, at 1:20 PM, 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. -- 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.
