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Archer BE550 Wifi bands and travel
Archer BE550 Wifi bands and travel
2024-09-19 19:11:37 - last edited 2024-10-14 09:13:12
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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.

Cheers!

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2024-09-19 20:48:13 - last edited 2024-10-14 09:13:12

  @Csakzozo 

 

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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2024-09-19 20:48:13 - last edited 2024-10-14 09:13:12

  @Csakzozo 

 

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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Re:Archer BE550 Wifi bands and travel
2024-09-22 19:40:42

 

woozle wrote

  @Csakzozo 

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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