Just tried this on my sky hub but it's only got europe. Not that I need more range.

In cities such as New York they have much more problems with WiFi than say London. The reason being that output is a lot higher in the USA on routers. In cities and apartments this means they're getting far more wireless routers interfering with their own.

So lower output isn't always a bad thing around the world. I find it surprising that the UK of all countries have this lower output restriction. I never thought the USA, Mexico etc would have been higher but in some cases I believe it's almost twice the output compared to the UK?

I am convinced though that this new Sky Hub replacement has some crazy output. It broadcasts like an AM radio station. I'm shocked. My first one was pretty poor but this replacements crazy.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Sun 30-Dec-12 13:29:15)

I live in a 3 story house, on the top floor in Europe mode (uk) I get 1 to 2 bars on my laptop, when I set it to Mexico I get full signal @ 150mbs, the difference is massive.

Wow, I'm not at home right now but can this setting be changed on a homehub 3 (is that what you're using)?

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I live in a 3 story house, on the top floor in Europe mode (uk) I get 1 to 2 bars on my laptop, when I set it to Mexico I get full signal @ 150mbs, the difference is massive.

Also you can be really annoying anyone with Apple OS X hardware, and probably Windows 8 - which both listen to the beacon country code and limit the channels in use.

My neighbour had some faulty hardware that was transmitting country code TW for Taiwan and I couldn't connect from my Mac to my 5 GHz test base station. Thankfully their router failed and they replaced it with one transmitting GB otherwise I'd have been knocking on neighbours doors :-/

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Wow, I'm not at home right now but can this setting be changed on a homehub 3 (is that what you're using)?

I'm using WNDR37AV (3700)

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In reply to a post by lockyatlrg:

I live in a 3 story house, on the top floor in Europe mode (uk) I get 1 to 2 bars on my laptop, when I set it to Mexico I get full signal @ 150mbs, the difference is massive.

Also you can be really annoying anyone with Apple OS X hardware, and probably Windows 8 - which both listen to the beacon country code and limit the channels in use.

My neighbour had some faulty hardware that was transmitting country code TW for Taiwan and I couldn't connect from my Mac to my 5 GHz test base station. Thankfully their router failed and they replaced it with one transmitting GB otherwise I'd have been knocking on neighbours doors :-/

I couldn't care less about apple users

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I couldn't care less about apple users

Linux users too - its only Windows that seems to ignore the standard.