Interestingly, the way to enable usage of the proper channels (at least in Snow Leopard) was to change the region (System Preferences -> Language & Text -> Region). 12 & 13) that are not supported in the U.S. It turns out my laptop's WiFI does support (at least) European channels (e.g. WiFi channels, but later found this was not necessarily true. I originally read some posts saying that U.S.
I ran into a problem not seeing WiFi routers in Europe with my late 2008 Macbook.