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Enable Telnet to Change Region on RAX70
Hello, I'm from Greece and recently bought a second hand RAX70. Unfortunately the Region is locked to China even though the router box clearly says RAX70-100EUS. (I thought that it was made for EU...
I finally got it to work.
I enabled Telnet and changed Region to Europe!
Now I have the 4804MHz option!
I managed to do it with Firmware Version 1.0.10.110 running the code I found here:
https://github.com/bkerler/netgear_telnet
I run the:
python3 telnet-enable.py [IP] [MAC] [user] "[password]"
Double quotes instead of single quotes in readme file might made the trick.
Many thanks to Bjoern Kerler!
Update: Make sure to reboot after changing region and speed. It took 5-10 mins and the SSID of 5ghz-2 finally appeared. I am now getting 2402/2402Mbps (Europe region, 4800Mbps mode, 128DFS) on some devices, up from previous 1200/1200Mps (Australia region, 2400Mbps mode). Currently using Firmware Version 1.0.5.108.
schumaku Smart Connect is off by default. I have left it disabled. I left out the screenshot of 5ghz-1. All three radios have options.
I was about to report the same.
I reset everything to default this morning. Stock setting for 5G-2 was to 2401 Mbps Mode and Channel 100 (DFS). When I changed to 4803 Mbps Mode the 5G-2 SSID disappeared and came back after approximately 10 mins.
By the way yesterday after 5 years of use my R7800 5GHz network also disappeared and I got a message that a radar was detected...