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Orbi Country Code
Apple release an update to MacOS today (v10.14.3)
Since updating, my iMac will connect to the WiFi through the Orbi and give me access to my home network so I can access all the NAS's. However...
Thanks. You’ve just proved my point. I have never found the community to be if any help. And I won’t be buying anything NetGear ever again. Shame as they used to be really good, but with terrible support and lack of care, I’ll go somewhere else. You can reply all you want to this. Like my handle, I don’t care, and in that it’s referring to how I feel about NetGear. What a terrible, terrible company.
This is definitely a known issue, an Apple issue, and specifically an iMac issue. Doing a bit of research will demonstrate that you are not alone, and that something is wrong with iMacs. Netgear has been making routers for the entire world for a very long time, understands the differences in countries use and standards of the wifi LAN spectrum, and the way Orbi and Nighthawk and any of their products set for Europe should work equally as well in Germany as in the UK (perhaps not a couple of countries in Europe that have exceptions). You can similarities and differences in many different places with some internet research.
The iMacs in question, knowing your loction, are not accepting DE, the first location, as a viable location. That is the iMac's fault. It should. It rejects the location, believing that its own performance will be compromised by a router not operating coincident with the country's standards. Your router is. A couple of code lines from Apple would fix this. As I mentioned, if you do not want to deal with Apple, then the only other thing is to employ telnet and try to change your country code to world wide. However, I am unsure if the iMac would still freak out, since it seems to want only one specific country.