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Hi lvchen860217,
Sorry to bother you. I noticed that you had bought "NETGEAR WAX206-100NAS" from Amazon US.
So could you please tell me whether the "NETGEAR WAX206-100NAS" needs a transformer(from 110V to 220V) to be used in China? Thanks in advance :)
It can happen that your WiFi clients, especially location-aware devices like mobiles, won't recognize (or "see") the router or AP because these might not allow using illegal channels, while both the router and the AP can operate on these.
The key reason is that the FCC does not allow user-configuring US/FCC devices to be operated on bands not legal in the US. Only Market-specific or worldwide models can be configured to match the regulations you need.
Legal? Nope, not at all.
Neither your US-Amazon-offered FCC-router nor your FCC-AP should be exported into other markets.
This is not Netgear's fault. Much more Amazon does not care about the customers. And worse, they allow false complaints, being about US-model power supplies not usable abroad and switchable higher voltages, being about wireless band and lack of configuration options (required by the FCC). And neither Netgear as a vendor nor other community members are allowed to answer the complaints about power supplies, about the inability to change the regulatory settings. .
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Shatskikh wrote:
So could you please tell me whether the "NETGEAR WAX206-100NAS" needs a transformer(from 110V to 220V) to be used in China?
Models intended for the US/North American market like the WAX206-100NAS are coming with a 100...120V AC power supply with a US standard power plug.
Bigger problem is that the US variant is coming on FCC regulatory settings, so not providing an option to use the correct channel settings as required for the Chinese regulations. This will cause issues if you try to combine the WAX206 with a regular extender or the like intended for your market.
Said that, the US versions are in no apsect not intended for worldwide export.
Regards,
-Kurt
Hi Kurt,
Thanks for your answer.
If both WiFi Router and Access Point are bought by Amazon US, will they work well (there are no "Bigger problem" you mentioned)?It can happen that your WiFi clients, especially location-aware devices like mobiles, won't recognize (or "see") the router or AP because these might not allow using illegal channels, while both the router and the AP can operate on these.
The key reason is that the FCC does not allow user-configuring US/FCC devices to be operated on bands not legal in the US. Only Market-specific or worldwide models can be configured to match the regulations you need.
Legal? Nope, not at all.
Neither your US-Amazon-offered FCC-router nor your FCC-AP should be exported into other markets.
This is not Netgear's fault. Much more Amazon does not care about the customers. And worse, they allow false complaints, being about US-model power supplies not usable abroad and switchable higher voltages, being about wireless band and lack of configuration options (required by the FCC). And neither Netgear as a vendor nor other community members are allowed to answer the complaints about power supplies, about the inability to change the regulatory settings. .
Hi Kurt,
Actually my network environment is very simple.Network topology as below
Fibre-optical modem ——> Netgear WIFI Router (bought by Amazon US) ——> Netgear AP (bought by Amazon UK) and all three devices are connected by network cable.Usage requirements
All cell phone and laptop are able to connect to the WIFI Router or API just tried to google to find some information and got the following hyperlink
List of WLAN channels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels#United_StatesWhat channels are supported in both the 2.4 GHz and 5GHz band in most countries?
https://www.lairdconnect.com/support/faqs/what-channels-are-supported-both-24-ghz-and-5ghz-band-most-countriesThey will be work? Thanks
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