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Wireless channel 12 or 13
Name: thorn101 Date: March 19, 2007 at 13:22:29 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: 1.6GHz 256 RAM Product: asus m6ne
Comment:
Hi, How can I make Win XP use the wireless channels 12 or 13.
I live in Europe and I can select channels 12 or 13 on my wireless router. Channels up to 11 are pretty crowded in my neighborhood, both 12 and 13 are as far I can see not used. On my Apple Powerbook I can use both channels without a problem and the speed improvement is great.
I have looked into new intel wireless drivers (they should be available for europe), but couldn't find anything.
Name: Dr.Spot Date: March 19, 2007 at 19:47:57 Pacific
Reply:
Normaly XP find any wi ch up to 13
But as this is driver dependent, try to change settings in Controlpanel > systems > hardware:
Find your driver and open settings.
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Response Number 2
Name: thorn101 Date: March 19, 2007 at 20:36:45 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the reply. I tried your suggestion, but there is no way to change the number of channels it can see only what channel you want to connect to (which goes up to 11).
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