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Firmware of europe
I bought a rbk23 in US, will move to Germany soon, can I use it's newst firmware of Europe? Will I brick the orbi?
US is more restrictive on the 2.4GHz channels, not allowing the channels 12 and 13.
On 5 GHz your Orbi will default different channels that would be used in Europe.
But all those channels that are available in USA are ok to use in Europe.
So don't worry. Just use it.
3nwq wrote:But all those channels that are available in USA are ok to use in Europe.
Afraid, this is not longer correct - it was upon a time. Channels 149..165 are no longer allowed to be used in Europe for WiFi - only max. 25 mW for SRD. And this is exactly where Orbi does prefer to run the wireless backhaul in the FCC version - that's why the impact on the client connections is limited.