Both my macbook pro and iPhone 4 are not finding the wifi network where Iīm staying in Barcelona. My friendīs laptop works, but itīs a european laptop, so Iīm not sure if that makes it different. It has WEP 128 bit alphanumeric security (no clue what that means, but just reading it off the back of the router).

Anyone else experience this?

 

Wireless is wireless and all wireless is backwards compatible so your MBPro prob has B/G/N capability.

 

European and Japanese 802.11 networks have a few frequencies that US radios don't like to play with. Make sure the active channel on the base station is lower than 10 and you should be fine.

Possible causes:

- Weird/Broken base station.
- Base station is not announcing its SSID, in which case you must join manually.
- Incompatible WEP/WPA encryption (unlikely).

Ask your friend for the network name and access key, if any, and join it manually. If that doesn't work, have the owner of the base station try another channel, if possible.

 

Manual access didn't work. It said connection timeout. How do you change the channel on the base station? I doubt my hosts would know.

 

you can only change it if you have access to the router. if you're in a hotel or something, you're probably screwed.

 

It sounds like problem with the host router, I travel alot through out Europe and Asia and haven't had a problem.

 

I'm at my girlfriends place. I have access to the router. But weirdly enough, both my iPhone and laptop picked up the signal and are now good (typing this from my mbp).