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Orbi Router Already Registered
I ordered a Orbi RBR50 from Amazon and when I went to set it up it asks me to register the router. When I enter the serial number it says it's already registered. Is there anything I can do so I ca...
michaelkenward wrote:
You should not have to use a serial number, or register, to set this thing up.
Sometimes it seems to me that the community forum exists because of the gap between what "should be" and "what is."
CrimpOn wrote:
michaelkenward wrote:
You should not have to use a serial number, or register, to set this thing up.Sometimes it seems to me that the community forum exists because of the gap between what "should be" and "what is."
To true. Where Netgear has taken the plunge and removed the "manual" registration in favour of a straight forward automatic enforced processes*, there are even more troubles and to many customers come to the community asking for help.
*Troubles are predictable for returned and resold, not properly refurbished, and second-hand units. Now this trend has swapped over to the Netgear SMB units - switches need a product registration (and need Internet access) to unlock the full feature set, devices managed before in another Netgear account can't be freed up without the assistance of the original owner, ...