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Jun 19, 2020

RBR850 debug screen No Telnet Option

Hello All, I have a Orbi RBR850 that works great however, I need to seperate out the 2.5 & 5 bands and name them different so some of my older devices will connect to 2.5 & not time out trying to con...

Aspirant

Sep 22, 2020

I found that “downgrading” to the oldest firmware on the support page allowed me to enable telnet. Access was still intact after re-upgrading to the latest firmware. Hope that helps.

FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 22, 2020
telnet can be enabled on current v6 FW as well using the telnetenabler from the git repo that out on the net.
Modernz wrote:
I found that “downgrading” to the oldest firmware on the support page allowed me to enable telnet. Access was still intact after re-upgrading to the latest firmware. Hope that helps.
- parisv
  Tutor
  Oct 12, 2020
  when do you get the mac address for the lan port from?
  
  does this mean I need to be connected to the router via ethernet rather than wifi to run the script?
  - FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User
    Oct 12, 2020
    From the sticker under the RBR. Probably either connection will work.
Lancelot218
Aspirant
Apr 13, 2021
I would like to confirm with you, the oldest version you mentioned is 3.1.5.23?
Also would you please list out the procedure of downgrading the firmware?
such as, downgrade RBR/RBS first?
Many thanks.
- FURRYe38
  Guru - Experienced User
  Apr 13, 2021
  If you downgrade, downgrade the RBS first then RBR lastly. Same FW update proceedures for manually updating FW on Orbi.
  - Lancelot218
    Aspirant
    Apr 13, 2021
    May I also have the version number which still have the telnet enable option?