You can change the wifi country code in the recalbox.conf
file to enable more wifi channels for your country.
Some channels are disabled in some countries:
Channel | Frequency (Mhz) | North America | Japan | Majority of the world |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2412 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
2 | 2417 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
3 | 2422 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
4 | 2427 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
5 | 2432 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
6 | 2437 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
7 | 2442 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
8 | 2447 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
9 | 2452 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
10 | 2457 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
11 | 2462 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
12 | 2467 | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
13 | 2472 | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
14 | 2484 | ❌ | ✅ (11b only) | ❌ |
This setting can be changed in the recalbox.conf
file:
## Set Wifi region
wifi.region=JP
Change the JP
value in the example to the value of your choice.
The default value is
JP
because this country is the most permissive for wifi.
Here is a list of wifi callsigns that you may find useful:
Country | Code |
---|---|
Austria | AT |
Australia | AU |
Belgium | BE |
Brazil | BR |
Canada | CA |
Switzerland and Liechtenstein | CH |
China | CN |
Cyprus | |
Czech Republic | CZ |
Germany | DE |
Denmark | DK |
Estonia | EE |
Spain | ES |
Finland | FI |
France | FR |
United Kingdom | GB |
Greece | GR |
Hong Kong | |
Hungary | HU |
Indonesia | ID |
Ireland | IE |
Israel | IL |
India | IN |
Iceland | IS |
Italy | IT |
Japan | JP |
Republic of Korea | KR |
Lithuania | LT |
Luxembourg | LU |
Latvia | LV |
Malaysia | MY |
Netherlands | NL |
Norway | NO |
New Zealand | NZ |
Philippines | |
Poland | PL |
Portugal | PT |
Sweden | SE |
Singapore | SG |
Slovenia | SI |
Slovakia | SK |
Thailand | TH |
Taiwan | TW |
United States | |
South Africa | ZA |
You can find more country codes on this page.