In Europe and in Asia, many wifi networks use channels 12 and 13 (and possibly 14). My Nexus S does not find wifi networks on these channels. This is very annoying since a lot of networks use these channels. My Nexus One does not have a problem with these channels.
I am posting this in the general forum as I believe it is an issue with the Android OS. In the case of Nexus S, it could additionally be a hardware issue. For previous versions of Android (I believe pre-Froyo), there was a setting under the advanced wifi settings named Regulatory Domain which allowed you to enable these channels. This setting is no longer avaiable in Android.
If this annoys you too, please star the following issue with Google:
Issue 1667 - android - WiFi unble to lock onto channels 12 / 13 - Project Hosting on Google Code
I am posting this in the general forum as I believe it is an issue with the Android OS. In the case of Nexus S, it could additionally be a hardware issue. For previous versions of Android (I believe pre-Froyo), there was a setting under the advanced wifi settings named Regulatory Domain which allowed you to enable these channels. This setting is no longer avaiable in Android.
If this annoys you too, please star the following issue with Google:
Issue 1667 - android - WiFi unble to lock onto channels 12 / 13 - Project Hosting on Google Code
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