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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...
Please excuse a couple of basic questions regarding how to telnet into Orbi. I've enabled telnet access and tried to access the router via ssh on my Mac. Mac no longer has telnet included with its OS.
- Do I need to use telnet, or should ssh work?
- If ssh works, would the commands be the same?
- In either case, what do I need to enter on the command line in Mac terminal to proceed? WhenI enter ssh admin@[ip address] access is denied.
Thank you.
Bill
192.168.1.1/debug.htm then select the check box next to Enable Telnet to enable it. You have to enable it first to access telnet.
BillTh wrote:Please excuse a couple of basic questions regarding how to telnet into Orbi. I've enabled telnet access and tried to access the router via ssh on my Mac. Mac no longer has telnet included with its OS.
- Do I need to use telnet, or should ssh work?
- If ssh works, would the commands be the same?
- In either case, what do I need to enter on the command line in Mac terminal to proceed? WhenI enter ssh admin@[ip address] access is denied.
Thank you.
Bill
As far as I can tell, Orbi does not support ssh.
BillTh wrote:Please excuse a couple of basic questions regarding how to telnet into Orbi. I've enabled telnet access and tried to access the router via ssh on my Mac. Mac no longer has telnet included with its OS.
- Do I need to use telnet, or should ssh work?
- If ssh works, would the commands be the same?
- In either case, what do I need to enter on the command line in Mac terminal to proceed? WhenI enter ssh admin@[ip address] access is denied.
Thank you.
Bill
Apple removed telnet cmd from macOS. If you want to get telnet cmd back, check out this how to enable telnet cmd on macOS.
Good Luck!
Thanks for the help! I installed telnet on my Mac and it worked fine.
Hi Bill,
From my recollection it was pretty simple and I didn't need to add anything to my MAC. You should use Telnet, not SSH. Take a look at this:
https://www.siteground.com/kb/mac_terminal_telnet/
Mike
Thanks Mike. Unfortunately, Apple has removed Telnet from its OS in recent releases. Here's a link that talks to that and provides options to install Telnet. I went with the first option.
Regards,
Bill
