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Invalid Certificate RBR50
I’m getting invalid certificate errors in every browser. The Orbi router login address is the culprit. I wasn’t able to access the internet at all. After a few searches on the forum, I discovered that disabling the Circle on Netgear Orbi gives me internet access back, since web requests aren’t having to go to that address anymore. But how do I fix the underlying invalid certificate issue so I can re-enable Circle?
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lnjustin wrote:
I’m getting invalid certificate errors in every browser. The Orbi router login address is the culprit. I wasn’t able to access the internet at all. After a few searches on the forum, I discovered that disabling the Circle on Netgear Orbi gives me internet access back, since web requests aren’t having to go to that address anymore. But how do I fix the underlying invalid certificate issue so I can re-enable Circle?The Orbi SSL Certificate is self-signed (by Netgear), not issued by a recognized certificate authority. In August of 2019, the URL's that Netgear had certificates for (router.com, orbilogin.com, orbilogin.net, and several others) expired. Either Netgear failed to renew them, or someone figured out that thousands of devices not owned by or run by Netgear had no business claiming to be Netgear. Netgear has never explained what happened.
Modern browsers baulk at web sites having no SSL certificate, and most modern browsers automatically look for an https connection before falling back to an http connection. Netgear had a choice: (a) have no certificate, which means that browsers will scream out "INSECURE", or (b) have a self-signed certificate which will also prompt a warning from browsers.
The solution I have used is to find that option in tiny type that says "Go to the web site anyway." After this is done once, the browser will remember and stop throwing up the warning.
