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Wifi Router 'Region' setting - what does this affect? Transmission power?
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I have a NetGear WGR614 wireless router. There is a 'region' setting in the wireless options. I'm wondering what technical purpose of this setting is? The admin help states: It may not be legal to operate the router in a region other than the region shown here. Which makes me wonder if it could be …
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The primary reason for the setting is that various world regions have allocated different amounts of frequency space around 2.4GHz for wifi and so some of them have fewer (or more, if you like) channels available than others. The region setting ensu…
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