How to enable / disable or change country code? (802.11d)

[RamGuy]

I am currently testing out the Asus RT-AC66U and I have rather nasty issues with my Mac clients and the 5GHz connection...

Mac OS X defaults to use 802.11d to enable the appropriate rules for wireless connection, so it takes the closest wireless access point that got some kind of 802.11d running and copies its country code to the Mac’s AirPort Express card. This is all good and dandy, my only problem being that Mac OS X reports that my Asus RT-AC66U is providing my Mac with a CN (China) country code and as China does not allow for 802.11n 5.0GHz on channel 36-140 or something my Mac refuses to locate my 802.11n 5.0GHz running on channel 46 which is a huge problem.

I cannot seem to find any way to change the country code on the Asus RT-AC66U so how exactly am I supposed to get around this issue of mine?

 

[bheiser1]

possibly related issue?

Hmmm I wonder if our issues are related. Here's the one I'm having:

http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=8835

My situation isn't reporting an incorrect country code (I'm in the US and it's reporting US), but on the 10.8.2 Mac I don't see that message at all, only on 10.7.5.

 

[Kritiker]

I don't see that where the RT-AC66U reports the country code. On my old routers (all now obsolete) I usually had a drop-down list in the basic Wireless settings that identified, and let me select the appropriate, county code.

 

[Kritiker]

After updating to 3.0.0.4.264.22, under Tools | Run CMD, entering

nvram show | grep country_code

produces a listing showing the values of three variables:

wl0_country_code=US
wl_country_code=US
wl1_country_code=US

which gives country codes, in this case US.

What the significance of these three variables is, I do not yet know.

Apparently there may be a few other settings that involve the country.

As for setting the country code, I have not tried it on this router but searching the web for

nvram set wl_country_code=DE

may provide some tips.

I am a new user on this forum so am not yet sure whether publishing an outside link here is acceptable.

Whether these tips are directly transferable to this router, I do not know. Whether such settings survive a router reboot, without a start-up script, I do not know. What other side-effects there might be, I do not know. The usual caveats apply.

 

[pepemosca]

I have an ASUS RT-AC86U running 3.0.0.4.382_18219-g76de09e (official channel).
I had bought the router in Amazon Spain.
I've noticed that I have the wrong country on the connection "DE" (I'm running macOS):

Does anyone knows what should I do to set it to "ES"?
Thanks!

 

[ColinTaylor]

I have an ASUS RT-AC86U running 3.0.0.4.382_18219-g76de09e (official channel).
I had bought the router in Amazon Spain.
I've noticed that I have the wrong country on the connection "DE" (I'm running macOS):

Does anyone knows what should I do to set it to "ES"?
Thanks!

The country code cannot be changed and is correct. Even though it says "DE", that is the correct setting for all EU countries.