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Airport update 3.3 unlocks cards sold in France Network
Until now, French mac users had severe difficulties joining public wi-fi networks. Reason? For years, the Airport cards sold in France were limited to four channels. A restriction required by a local legislation (no longer active today; that's why it doesn't apply to AirPort Extreme cards).

Most of users thought the limitation was hardware. It was not! With the AirPort 3.3 update, all the channels are now available in the first generation cards. To check this:
  1. Update your Airport software
  2. Select "Create a Network" ("Créer un Réseau") from the AirPort menu
  3. Admire: now, all the channels are available to you.
This is not documented by Apple, so I thought your french readers would by interested to learn it.

Sorry for my bad english, I work hard to improve it ...
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Bad English?
Authored by: broderik on Feb 05, '04 11:28:20AM

Pfft... you speak a lot better than some native English speakers I know =P



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Airport update 3.3 unlocks cards sold in France
Authored by: deling on Feb 05, '04 01:12:18PM

Interesting. How does the driver determine if I am in France or not?



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Airport update 3.3 unlocks cards sold in France
Authored by: Anonymous on Feb 05, '04 04:28:18PM

That's some magic we will never know! ;-)

(it knows, since the cards sold in france have an hardware adres, know by the driver to activate the limit, i'd guess)



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Airport update 3.3 unlocks cards sold in France
Authored by: felix-fi on Feb 06, '04 02:26:49AM

The cards are localized. Go in System Profile and look at the Wireless Card Locale field of the airpot card. Mine says USA (I bought my machine there) and thus the chanel 12 and 13 remained locked on mine while my french colleagues enjoy a wider band... :-(

The interesting thing about this story, is that Apple France was claiming for a while that it was not possible to unlock those cards... :-)



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Airport update 3.3 unlocks cards sold in France
Authored by: rev on Feb 05, '04 01:15:50PM

Ah, yes.

This was a feature, not a bug. :)

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-J. 'rev'



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Airport update 3.3 unlocks cards sold in France
Authored by: mezis on Feb 06, '04 04:39:01AM

Unfortunately this doesn't make the TiBooks' bad Airport reception better...



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