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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 EX7500 so the 5Ghz backhaul feature could be connected to the same channel as my existing router. But it seems the regional setting is grayed out and locked to only North America. Tried to download all firmware from https://www.netgear.com/support/product/EX7500.aspx#download, but all of them is locked up to North America region. Is there any other firmware for other region for this product? Or EX7500 can only be used in US only? Please, i am really need help, thank you.
regards,
Samuel
2 Replies
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
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.
