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phands
Oct 01, 2025Aspirant
Does the Orbi 970 series allow SSH or Telnet access?
Hi everyone, I just got a new Wifi 7 setup - 2 970 satellites and an RBE971 router. I upgraded from some fairly old (5 year) Orbi models, and they have always been fantastic. I'm used to bei...
- Oct 01, 2025
When the WiFi6 product line was introduced, command line access to the router was not included as a feature. (not even a 'hidden' feature) Some time ago, Netgear removed telnet access from the WiFi5 models. (there is an unsupported 'hack' that restores telnet on those models.)
Like the WiFi6 products, the WiFi7 products also do not provide command line access to the router.
Bummer.
FURRYe38
Oct 01, 2025Guru - Experienced User
Telnet was removed from all Orbi systems back in 2020/21 going forward.