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samvinson
Jun 02, 2020Aspirant
Region change for Netgear EX7500
I just bought Netgear tri band extender EX7500 from US and bring it to Indonesia. My old router only supported channel 100-140 while using 5Ghz wifi. I tried to change the regional setting of the EX7...
plemans
Jun 02, 2020Guru - Experienced User
The US region devices are locked.
there's been several threads that walk people though using telenet to unlock/change regions.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/R8500-how-to-unlock-wifi-region/m-p/1495931
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/Region-change/td-p/507639
- samvinsonJun 03, 2020Aspirant
Just tried telnet solution, but it seems only could working for router but not the extender as i can not enable "telnet" option on the device setting. Any chances that i can get firmware from other region devices? Thank you.