{"id":1050,"date":"2014-09-15T14:47:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:48:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T18:48:52","slug":"surface-pro-3-purchased-in-usa-wireless-may-not-work-outside-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/15\/surface-pro-3-purchased-in-usa-wireless-may-not-work-outside-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface Pro 3 Purchased in USA &#8211; Wireless May not Work Outside North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been involved in a couple of threads on Microsoft communities like <a title=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/forum\/surfpro3-surfnetwork\/using-surface-pro-3-in-europe-no-support-for\/91d6f4ec-f9d1-4bfe-a0f5-f2bbd6517053\" href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/forum\/surfpro3-surfnetwork\/using-surface-pro-3-in-europe-no-support-for\/91d6f4ec-f9d1-4bfe-a0f5-f2bbd6517053\">http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/forum\/surfpro3-surfnetwork\/using-surface-pro-3-in-europe-no-support-for\/91d6f4ec-f9d1-4bfe-a0f5-f2bbd6517053<\/a> which highlight and issue that Microsoft doesn\u2019t seem to care about.<\/p>\n<p>While the majority if wireless routers and AP\u2019s in Europe and Asia by default are set at channels 1-11 for the 2,4 GHz band, additional higher power channels 12-14 are optionally available. Many private organizations and companies utilize this. I don\u2019t know the situation with public WiFi abroad, but I suspect the configuration may vary, depending on the provider. I\u2019m certainly hearing from afflicted users like this one from Germany:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"germany 802.11d\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/germany802.11d.png\" alt=\"germany 802.11d\" width=\"425\" height=\"115\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you read the above referenced thread, you can draw your own conclusions, but as *I* read the available information, Microsoft owes folks a localized optional driver.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to hear from afflicted users on Twitter. @barbbowman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I\u2019ve been involved in a couple of threads on Microsoft communities like http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/forum\/surfpro3-surfnetwork\/using-surface-pro-3-in-europe-no-support-for\/91d6f4ec-f9d1-4bfe-a0f5-f2bbd6517053 which highlight and issue that Microsoft doesn\u2019t seem to care about. While the majority if wireless routers and AP\u2019s in Europe and Asia by default are set at channels 1-11 for the 2,4 GHz band, additional higher power channels 12-14 are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[140],"tags":[233],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>&nbsp; I\u2019ve been involved in a couple of threads on Microsoft communities like http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/forum\/surfpro3-surfnetwork\/using-surface-pro-3-in-europe-no-support-for\/91d6f4ec-f9d1-4bfe-a0f5-f2bbd6517053 which highlight and issue that Microsoft doesn\u2019t seem to care about. While the majority if wireless routers and AP\u2019s in Europe and Asia by default are set at channels 1-11 for the 2,4 GHz band, additional higher power channels 12-14 are optionally available. Many private organizations and companies utilize this. I don\u2019t know the situation with public WiFi abroad, but I suspect the configuration may vary, depending on the provider. I\u2019m certainly hearing from afflicted users like this one from Germany: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; If you&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/category\/surface\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Surface<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"barbbowman","url":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/author\/barbbowman\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvFKI-gW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}