Question on our Buffalo Airstation Wireless Router.

[NLAlston]

We have a Buffalo Airstation Wireless Router (WHR-600D), which had been purchased abroad, when our daughter attended a university in Finland. She brought it home, with her, and I had been battling very hard - with this device - within attempts to set it up in our home (we live in the States). I never had success with those attempts, and (just yesterday) spoke with someone from Buffalo Routers Tech support. After giving him the serial number he stated that the reason I hadn't found success with setting it up was because of it being a UK device, which wouldn't work in the USA.

Now, normally, I wouldn't question what had been shared with me, from that technician. But he seemed quite a bit distant; as if he really wasn't keen on being involved in any such discussion, to begin with.

I really wanted to make this one work for us, because of being relatively sure that it would be a fair bit better than the antiquated one that we are presently using. Also, I would've thought that signals were nothing more than signals, and that the only differing aspects between similarly manufactured devices for the UK, and the USA, would have been their electrical powering requirements - of which I have adapted.

I just want to make sure that the tech was straight with me, before I toss the unit out.

Advanced thanks.

 

[johnb35]

That specific model was also sold in the USA. Just make sure the internal IP of the router isn't close to your modem IP. For example, if modem IP is 192.168.1.1 then router internal IP needs to be 192.168.2.1

 

[beers]

Depends, but it should still work. 802.11 is an international wireless standard, if it has a Europe radio restriction schedule then you may be limited on a few specific channels.

What happens when you try to associate with the ssid?