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RBK853 Alternative to OrbiLogin.com
For anyone having trouble accessing their Orbi Router user interface using the ORBILOGIN.COM, here is a solution. Use ROUTERLOGIN.NET instead. I was in a "do-loop" trying to use ORBILOGIN...
jafox14 wrote:
For anyone having trouble accessing their Orbi Router user interface using the ORBILOGIN.COM, here is a solution.
Use ROUTERLOGIN.NET instead.
Years ago, Netgear secured an SSL Certificate for a bunch of internet domain names:
- routerlogin.com
- routerlogin.net
- orbilogin.com
- orbilogin.net
- and a couple more that I cannot remember*
Netgear then modified the DNS resolution software in the router to watch for those specific domain names and return the IP address of the router. When a user enters one of those domain names in a web browser, the DNS request does not go out the internet to one of the DNS sites. (How could it? There are thousands of routers claiming to be routerlogin.com. The DNS resolvers do not know which of them - if any - is actually routerlogin.com) Instead, the web browser hears, "Lucky you. That URL is right here at <IP address>".
A more direct way to get to the router web interface is to go directly to the 'gateway' IP address, which is usually 192.168.1.1.
*That SSL certificate has since expired and not been renewed. Netgear now includes a self-signed SSL certificate in each router, which web browsers complain bitterly about. (Not Secure!!! Go Back!!!)