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WPS is ON all the time, and can't be disabled
Orbi RBS20/CBR40 System WiFi Monitor is showing the network as WPS enabled: so it seems it is susceptible to the WPS hacks out there. There is also no visible way to disable WPS within the Orbi L...
Well you can surely post about this here then:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-home
Also make contact with a forum moderator as well.
Again, nothing we can do here in the forums.
Good Luck.
I installed the ""reaver" WPS hack tool for Linux. After several attempts, all it manages to say is, "detected AP rate limiting. Waiting 60 seconds before re-checking." One attempt said, that it was trying PIN 12345670, but nothing after that. Not encouraging that the tool designed to discover WPS PIN in a minimum of 11,000 attempts has failed miserably.
Of course, I will keep plugging away trying to hack the Orbi WPS PIN, but I have this feeling that the comment from 2014 is correct that "Modern WiFi access points are not vulnerable to PIN attack."
That leaves the physical WPS button, which I do not see as that much of a vulnerability. If someone can physically touch my Orbi to press the WPS button, they can do so much more.