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Will UK DSL/Router work in Switzerland?

I am travelling over to Switzerland in the near future to build a PC and get it up and running with a wireless broadband network.

I do not read German and want to purchase the Wireless/DSL router/switch over here (probably a Netgear DG834G as i have the same at the moment). The person who i am setting this up for is not technical at all so acting as a translator is out of the question really.

Can anyone offer any advice as to what problems i might encouter WRT getting the router setup over there - i have no idea of what the actual telephony settings that they use - or even if they use RJ11 cables like we use over here.

Or would it make more sense to buy it over there (correct power supply) and then could i flash it to English with a firmware upgrade? Is that possible?

Thanks in advance.

Vladan_MOBTEL

THere is a huge chance that even if you buy it in Switzerland it will be in English... I have used ADSL modems and routers, and I still have one, by Planet, everything was fine. Regarding ADSL connection, you should buy there a splitter (you can get one in InterDiscount in every town) because they use their phone jacks, but from there it is RJ45 if I remember correctly.

You could get into the problems if you ask them for some help, then your english could easilly come insufficient...

I hope that this helps.

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