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lifequitin
Follower
May 21, 2015
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Region change?

I bought R8000 from US during my travel and i want to use it within EU. Region setting can't be changed from admin interface and wireless performance is sluggish because of the low power compared to ...
AC3200
Nighthawk
R8000
  • JamesGL's avatar
    JamesGL
    Nov 14, 2015

    Hi porschaman,

     

    The region is locked based on the place it was manufactured and also the firmware loaded on it. If you want  to change it, you may try loading a different firmware. Check the suppot site (Support.netgear.com).

     

    Regards,

     

    JamesGL

    Community Team

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Cognizant1
Tutor
Jan 22, 2016
I live in IL and bought the Nighthawk r7000-100pas from Dell. (Don't offer 100nas) do I need to change anything and if so why don't they sell the North America version when most purchase in the USA? Thanks
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JamesGL
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 23, 2016

Hi kyd-GH,

 

You can only change the region once you have loaded a firmware for specific region. You may visit support site for the firmwares.

 

support.netgear.com.

 

Hi Cognizant1,

 

What is the region on the router's UI? If it is not North America then you can load firmwares for North America.