help changing wireless domain on linksys instant wireless USB NIC

Hi,

My girlfriend lives in Israel and I am sending her some wireless
equipment because buying in the states is cheaper considerably. I
bought a netgear cable/dsl router and found the appropriate settings
to change the WIRELESS DOMAIN but however, looking on the settings for
the Linksys USB instant wireless card, I have no found any settings to
change the wireless domain. Where can I find them? I checked in its
properties but only found the settings to change channels. Is it
possible to change wireless domains with this card or will i have to
find another one, if so what would anyone suggest.

Thanks
-Nick

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> Hi,
>
> My girlfriend lives in Israel and I am sending her some wireless
> equipment because buying in the states is cheaper considerably. I
> bought a netgear cable/dsl router and found the appropriate settings
> to change the WIRELESS DOMAIN but however, looking on the settings for
> the Linksys USB instant wireless card, I have no found any settings to
> change the wireless domain. Where can I find them? I checked in its
> properties but only found the settings to change channels. Is it
> possible to change wireless domains with this card or will i have to
> find another one, if so what would anyone suggest.
>
> Thanks
> -Nick
>

I am not looking at my wireless Linksys card, but when you say DOMAIN,
I'll assume you mean the NAME of something to join. That would be the
SSID on the Linksys equipment. And the SSID - NAME enter for the router
and all wireless cards that access the router must have same SSID - NAME.
So I would think that the SSID NAME of the Linksys card must match the
DOMAIN NAME for the router. If the DOMAIN NAME given on the router is
NICK, then the SSID on the Linksys card must be NICK.

But having never seen a Netgear, I could be wrong. On a all Linksys
network the SSID must be the same for router and network cards.

Duane

> I am not looking at my wireless Linksys card, but when you say DOMAIN,
> I'll assume you mean the NAME of something to join. That would be the
> SSID on the Linksys equipment. And the SSID - NAME enter for the router
> and all wireless cards that access the router must have same SSID - NAME.
> So I would think that the SSID NAME of the Linksys card must match the
> DOMAIN NAME for the router. If the DOMAIN NAME given on the router is
> NICK, then the SSID on the Linksys card must be NICK.
>
> But having never seen a Netgear, I could be wrong. On a all Linksys
> network the SSID must be the same for router and network cards.
>
> Duane

No by domain I mean this. When you login to your linksys wireless
router admin panel (I have one as well in addition to the netgear)
and look at the initial page, scan down to where you can pick the
channel it will operate on. You will see something like

Channel [6] (Domain:USA)

Now it doesnt let you set the domain (which has something to do with
the frequency it uses),howeven on the netgear you can select from
USA/Japan/Europe/Asia/Israel

the problem is, there is no way to modify this setting on the card, so
once you change the domain it wont talk to the wireless card anymore
becuase its stuck on USA Domain. Im curious if anyone knows what to
set (a registry patch maybe) to change the Domain on the wireless
card. This has nothing to do with the SSID as far as I can tell.

-nick

My advice (not related to the topic) is: first check if 2.4Ghz equipment is
allowed into Israel.

Joe

"Dogcow" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> My girlfriend lives in Israel and I am sending her some wireless
> equipment because buying in the states is cheaper considerably. I
> bought a netgear cable/dsl router and found the appropriate settings
> to change the WIRELESS DOMAIN but however, looking on the settings for
> the Linksys USB instant wireless card, I have no found any settings to
> change the wireless domain. Where can I find them? I checked in its
> properties but only found the settings to change channels. Is it
> possible to change wireless domains with this card or will i have to
> find another one, if so what would anyone suggest.
>
> Thanks
> -Nick

"OOzan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<OYeeb.8784$(E-Mail Removed)> ...
> My advice (not related to the topic) is: first check if 2.4Ghz equipment is
> allowed into Israel.
>
> Joe
>
>

the router (netgea mr814) has a setting which changes the "domain" (im
guessing the range of freq.), it has settings for USA,Japan,Asia,
Europe, Israel so im guessing the answer is yes. And yes they do sell
2.4gz equipment there (linksys etc..) but its about 4x more expensive
(as is most stuff) and includes the tax which is like 17% compared to
7% in florida, usa

-nick