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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 my home country. Is there any way to change region of this router other then US?
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
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- 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
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.
- My netgear router also has region grayed out, please help I'm from Asia
Please help! Recently purchased R6300v2 thru Amazon. The Genie's Region is locked on North America. Can you help me change it to Asia. Thank you all.
- The reason why the region is greyed out because it is manufactured for the place where you purchase the unit. That is why there are different firmwares uploaded on NETGEAR's site for different region.
- Sorry for posting so many replies, but i have found new information.
Using the burnsku command,
0x001 is for region NA
0x002 is for region WW
0x003 is for region GR
0x004 is for region PR
0x005 is for region RU
0x006 is for region BZ
0x007 is for region IN
0x008 is for region KO
0x009 is for region JP
This are all the available commands i have found which links to a region. FYI, the numbers 0x001, 0x002 is the command you type in the telnet to change the region (burnsku 0x001 etc.) - Just a heads up, i only have these regions on the list currently:
Asia
Australia
Canada
China
India
Korea
Malaysia
Mexico
Middle East (Saudi Arabia)
Singapore
South America
United States
If i right click on the box and inspect element, i could see other region's such as Africa, Europe, Israel, Japan, Russia and North America which has the line in front "Disabled". Editing the line makes the country appear in the list, but applying the setting results in the region resetting to "Select Region", which defaults as Europe (seen from the Advanced tab). Maybe this depends on where you bought it, maybe?
Lastly, running the command
wl -i eth1 txpwr1
wl -i eth2 txpwr1
wl -i eth3 txpwr1
returns this:
TxPower is 127 qdbm, 31.75 dbm, 1496 mW Override is Off
I think that this states the maximum transmit power available for this router, but is limited via the country settings. I need someone to help check out on this too. - I managed to unlock the option to select the other countries available. Mine was locked on to North America at first (greyed out, can't select), but i managed to unlock it.
If you need some instructions on how i did it, please tell me and i will post it. However, if you want to research on the instructions yourself, here are two things i did.
1) Telnet into router using telnetenable (MyOpenRouter - even though the website says it is only for the Netgear R7500 and Netgear R7000, it works for my Netgear R8000 too)
2) burnsku command to change the router's region to WW (world-wide) - Mine is greyed out, even if changed I do not know if this then also changes power settings.
