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ORBI RBK53 Region Change
If you'd like to save some bucks and buy Orbi from Costco and bring it home outside the US, but you want to make a region change from North America to your region, try this:
1. Login to Orbi/de...
For months I couldn't find a solution to my Raspberry Pi (Model 4) disconnecting reguarly from the AC3000. (To be more accurate - it was staying connected to the Orbi wifi, but somehow, had no access to the Internet). The Orbi was purchased in Canada, but the Raspberry Pi came from Europe. I repeatedly tried adjusting the Localisation settings on the Pi - but to no avail.
Then I came across this post. Although it specifies the RBK53, I decided to try it on my RBK50.
It's now 48 hours since I changed my Orbi to Europe and I'm delighted to see that I'm still attached to the Internet. Many thanks.
If someone has an explanation about what's going on here, I'd love to hear it. If my Pi is set to US, and my Orbi to North America, why would it repeadedly disconnect? Why would placing them both on Europe make a difference?
Mike_D_il wrote:
If someone has an explanation about what's going on here, I'd love to hear it. If my Pi is set to US, and my Orbi to North America, why would it repeadedly disconnect? Why would placing them both on Europe make a difference?
My guess, and it is no more than that, is that the communications standards are different.
Stuff sold in Europe is not locked to a region. The browser graphical user interface (GUI) lets us change it, with a dropdown that covers most of the world.
In the USA they lock them down. (I got sent one from the USA.) This is probably because the FCC, or whoever sets the rules, does not allow the use various wifi bands and perhaps other things. So Netgear, and others, may just be following the law.
Mike_D_il wrote:For months I couldn't find a solution to my Raspberry Pi (Model 4) disconnecting reguarly from the AC3000. (To be more accurate - it was staying connected to the Orbi wifi, but somehow, had no access to the Internet). The Orbi was purchased in Canada, but the Raspberry Pi came from Europe. I repeatedly tried adjusting the Localisation settings on the Pi - but to no avail.
Then I came across this post. Although it specifies the RBK53, I decided to try it on my RBK50.
It's now 48 hours since I changed my Orbi to Europe and I'm delighted to see that I'm still attached to the Internet. Many thanks.
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Glad to hear that this trick works out for you. Thanks for your feedback!
On my setup, it seems to revert back to "US only" now and again. (I DO click Apply). I can't find anywhere that the Orbi automatically updates. What am I missing?
SW_ wrote:
Mike_D_il wrote:For months I couldn't find a solution to my Raspberry Pi (Model 4) disconnecting reguarly from the AC3000. (To be more accurate - it was staying connected to the Orbi wifi, but somehow, had no access to the Internet). The Orbi was purchased in Canada, but the Raspberry Pi came from Europe. I repeatedly tried adjusting the Localisation settings on the Pi - but to no avail.
Then I came across this post. Although it specifies the RBK53, I decided to try it on my RBK50.
It's now 48 hours since I changed my Orbi to Europe and I'm delighted to see that I'm still attached to the Internet. Many thanks.
...
Glad to hear that this trick works out for you. Thanks for your feedback!
Thanks,
Mike
Mike_D_il wrote:On my setup, it seems to revert back to "US only" now and again. (I DO click Apply). I can't find anywhere that the Orbi automatically updates. What am I missing? ...
Is there any events in the system log, firmware reset, etc.,? Try to reboot the Orbi after hitting the "APPLY" button to verify if the region change has persisted across reboots. You can also use cmd line via telnet window to check the region before and after reboot.
- Hi Mike I also have the same setup RBR50 with 2 RBS50 satellites and was facing the same exact issue like yours. When I checked the serial number of my router it said origin Europe and after reading your post have changed the region to Europe and now my Internet doesn't stop. I have no clue as it why this is happening but this worked for me too so a big thank you as I spoke to the tech support here in India and they were going to send me a replacement satellite. Just hope it doesn't stop again. Thank you once again Mike.
Thanks for letting me know and I'm very pleased it worked for you. From my experience, it seems the revent back to the US pretty frequently. I tried cancelling automatic updates but that didn't help. So now, about once every 2 weeks, I go in and change it back to Europe. It's pretty inconveient, but at least it works.
Mike
- Hi Mike I have checked and my region is still set to Europe. I am on VOXEL Custom firmware so no problem of automatic updates. This firmware is actually very good and stable and even my download speeds have increased by 3mbps. So far so good.
