Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Dray]

As we are in the UK and channels 12 and 13 are valid in the UK, what is the point of saying 12 and 13 don't work everywhere? They work everywhere in the UK after all.

[Al1264]

The point is that some equipment validly sold in the UK (even UK specific spec.) has the wireless set up to the 'lowest common denominator' of USA frequency bands and is not capable of operating on bands 12 or 13 (I have an ACER netbook that's exactly like that and that was supplied direct from ACER UK).

[AArdvark]

ASUS did this on the latest firmware on some of their Routers.

This was the cause of no end complaints on various forums but ASUS did not relent.
It was simply to ensure that the modems if imported back into the US did not break FCC Regs.
The fact it did NOT strictly comply with Regs outside the US did not matter to them at all.
i.e. Other countires allowed a bigger range of channels.

(They had previously been pulled up, via a competitors complaint, when a router tested exceeded that regs and got better results.
I believe it exceeded the allowed power output or something similar)

For ASUS as long as you are within the USA FCC Regs that is all that matters.
The FCC appear to trump everyone elses rules. 

They argue that although restricted they do comply with the rules outside of the US as well.
True but limiting when there are more channels that you could use to avoid conflict of channels.