Originally, the message came from out IT department:
If I am to buy a loptop in US, is there any way I can avoid the problem?
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Well, read what they said. You just won't be able to connect to networks that use channels above 11.
If you want to avoid the problem, don't try to connect to those networks. Or tell whoever is managing them to use a different channel. -
John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator
The model of the wireless adaptor usually has some letters after its number. I thought that the folk west of the pond use "a" while those to the east use "b". I was under the impression that if a European notebook's wireless adaptor included "a" then it would work in North America. Something like the 4965abgn should work anywhere.
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The letters signify what types of wireless standards the card takes (Wireless A, B, G, N) not the channels that the signal is broadcast on.
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It will be very difficult to change those channels as they pertain to the transceivers in both sides, server and client. It would be to expensive to have a broad transceiver when you will use it 99% of the time in one market.
The only way to get other channels would be to use en external upconverter/dowconverter black box, I'm wondering if they exist. I don't think you can re-program the wireless adapters, you might be able to do some tweaking but the transceivers have other parts like filters, amplifiers, etc, and these components are frequency band standard dependant.
I'm not surprised to see that Europe is using different frequencies, they have been doing this forever in the carriers spectrum (e.g. GSM). -
Wouldn't a simple solution just be to buy a European USB/Expresscard Wifi adapter and use that when traveling?
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That sounds good to me, but I think he wants to use an internal card, and even there Intel must have an 4965 AGN for Europe, it sounds logical to me to have one.
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Unless you buy from a boutique reseller, you're not going to be able to make customizations of that manner with the big companies.
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Yes, thy OEM will put in for you but it won't works as you are explaining.
Tell us more about the European channel allocations for WiFi. -
Wirelessman
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The easiest solution, short of having the seller from whom you purchase install a European-compliant internal card seems to be to be that you purchase a European-compliant internal card yourself and replace the non-compliant card.
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But it would seem that we don't have WiFi internal cards in europe, that is what I'm getting from his post.
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) that the number of operating channels the card uses is a software/firmware function, not a hardware function.
The same goes with their new draft-N series, called the intensi-fi family of internal cards.
According to Intel on this webpage, an Intel wireless card can cross so-called "regulatory domains" (i.e., go from the US to Europe), and the way that the card handles the change is that, by default, all cards (worldwide, it appears), only actively scan channels 1-11, but can passively receive on channels 12-14. So, in the case of the OP, if he purchases a notebook with an Intel wireless card inside (at least one of those specified on the Intel webpage linked above), if his firm is using an access point that broadcasts on channels 12 or 13, his notebook should still be able to receive that broadcast and, once its picked up the signal, interact on those channels, even though it's only actively scanning channels 1-11. At least that's my take on it. -
It makes a lot of sense what you are saying, so I don't understand why the IT department warned Grishka about the lack of appropriate internal WiFi card in Europe, it made it sound like they don't have the applicable option for their market, strange!
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There is another fellow in the forum called REPARAQU, he is from Holland, I'll ask him what is the true story, I'm very sure that, that IT department sucks
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Yeah, hahahahaha.
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Hi Grishka, check this;
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=246074 -
cheers ...
Europe vs. USA - need help
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Grishka, Apr 27, 2008.