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Orbi RKB53 global differences
Is there any difference between Orbi RBK53 sold in the US and in Europe? Any differences in supported bands, interference etc.? Or are they interchangable? Planning on buying in US and using in Norwa...
If it helps, here is a screen shot before where it's disabled. The reason I enable it on my Orbi was only to help OP and let him know it's okay to purchase from Costco bring it back home to save some money.
(Embedded pictures needs approval, attached files go straight through.)
Something seems to have got lost in translation. To sum things up:
If you buy an Orbi system in the USA, then when you take it home to Europe, for example, there is a good chance that you will not be able use that dropdown to change the wifi region. (And, contrary to what someone said earlier, the hardware does not recognise where you are and change the wireless region accordingly.) It simply does not work for the devices that I listed earlier. The region shows as North America. The drop down is "greyed out". No can change.
If you want to see the dropdown then, as you said earlier, you have to jump through some hoops to get it to work. I followed the guidance from ekhalil.
Also, if you are curious, my Orbi set was purchased from Costo in the US and I live within a driving distance of Netgear HQ. :-)
I wasn't going to mention this, but my Orbi devices came from the Netgear HQ.
michaelkenward wrote:
>> the hardware does not recognise..
It's NOT the hadware, it's software, which has the smart to recognise the right vs. wrong region.
@michaelkenward wrote:
>> The region shows as North America. The drop down is "greyed out". No can change.
You seem to answer your own question here.
michaelkenward wrote:
>> It seems that setting the region to 0x0001 disables the dropdown. Changing it to 0x0002 means that it now works...
michaelkenward wrote:
>> And, contrary to what someone said earlier...
That *someone* is me. You can say it. :-)
SW_ wrote:
>> When you boot/setup Obri router in EU or any other regions, it will figure out the correct region automatically. If not, it can still be changed, ..
Case and point here or check out the pictures in this post.
@michaelkenward wrote:
>> It seems that setting the region to 0x0001 disables the dropdown. Changing it to 0x0002 means that it now works...
When you figure out the reason behind changing region from 0x0001 to 0x0002, which the Orbi UI (software) suddenly allows you to access to drop down menu to change the region, then you will have a different perspective of what I said above.
michaelkenward wrote:
>> If you want to see the dropdown then, as you said earlier, you have to jump through some hoops to get it to work...
I didn't have to jump through hoops to enable it on Orbi RBK53 set, because it's something I already knew a while back. Like many of us (myself included), simply asking the right question, as the steinmr did at the begining of this post, will often get the answers we're looking for.
To find the region light switch, just put 2 and 2 together. The answer you seek is often right in front of us.
I rather not speculate on things that I don't know the answer to.