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by ndsipa_pomu 1181 days ago
With Wifi, there's different laws about strength of broadcasts etc. in various countries, so I can understand there being some kind of region control, but having it locked is very anti-consumer. Usually you can easily change the legislative region to bring you in line with local laws.

Gas equipment tends to be extremely controlled, so I can understand no-one wanting to connect to a different region's connector with possibly different regulatory standards.
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domh 1181 days ago
Yeah I've heard about the regional wifi laws to do with strengths etc. Annoyingly there is a disabled region dropdown in the web UI of the router, which has Europe listed as an option, I just cant change it. Ive tried undisabling in the inspector as well as crafting an http request to modify the region but it doesn't work. Then it reboots itself due to the lack of cable connection.

I understand more with the gas due to the difference in gas canister supplies. They do actually sell replacement regional hoses, so I assumed I'd be able to just switch it out.

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ndsipa_pomu 1181 days ago
Usually it's trivial to change the wifi region, so it sounds like Netgear are just being arseholes there.

I thought you were talking about mains gas for the oven - they tend to get a lot more precious over that being correctly fitted than for canisters.

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Symbiote 1181 days ago
The box for my Weber grill is very clearly labelled with about 10 countries where the gas connection is compatible.

If the equivalent is "US, CA" I could see this label being a lot less obvious.

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