Archer BE550 Wifi bands and travel
Hello all!
Planning to buy an Archer BE550 router here(Indiana) but I would probably be moving around with it,including to Europe. I was wondering if the regions in the settings are changeable, and will it also change the bandwith options in case of setting it to EU? I understood the legislation alows different bandwiths there than here.
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Hi,
Unfortunately, the times when the stock firmware of routers allowed the user to select a region of his/her own choice are long gone. (perhaps around 10 years already)
Furthermore, I am also not aware of any recent router model that would allow changing the region by installing an official firmware designed for a different region. Either the region setting is baked directly into the router or installing a firmware of another region is being blocked and trying to do so will just result in an error message being shown.
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Hi,
Unfortunately, the times when the stock firmware of routers allowed the user to select a region of his/her own choice are long gone. (perhaps around 10 years already)
Furthermore, I am also not aware of any recent router model that would allow changing the region by installing an official firmware designed for a different region. Either the region setting is baked directly into the router or installing a firmware of another region is being blocked and trying to do so will just result in an error message being shown.
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woozle wrote
Unfortunately, the times when the stock firmware of routers allowed the user to select a region of his/her own choice are long gone. (perhaps around 10 years already)
believe it or not, the "region lock" for Netgear's Orbi routers is nothing more than a <select ... disabled> attribute on the web admin frontend -- anyone with an F12 key can bypass it
...allegedly
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