Using an Airport Extreme from Hong-Kong in Europe?

I got 2 AP Extreme here that I bough tin Hong-Kong. Now I try to use them to enhace a Wireless Network in Europe. There seems to be a problem. Anyone knows how they are different? Are they using different frequencies? I realized that configuration panel only shows me some pacific locations (Australia, Asia).
Kind regards

but cannot get it to work properly.
What exactly, does not work?
The power supply will work on 100-240 Volts and 50-60 Hz, so power wise, the AirPort Extreme will work on local AC power just about anywhere in the world, assuming that you have the correct AC plug for the AC wll jack.
Asia has different WiFi standards than the US, though, so some channels that work on the Extreme in Asia will not work in the U.S. and vice versa. Please see this article for more information in that regard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
In general, you will likely need to set the AirPort Extreme to use channels 1-11 on 2.4 GHz and probably limit 5 GHz channels to 36, 40, 44, and 48.

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