Asus RT-AC88U wrong country code

[ModmIke]

Being an early adopter bit me in the butt. When the RT-AC88U originally came out, it was not available in Canada so I got it from Gearbest. Unfortunately it has CN as the country code, with all the power and channel restrictions that come along with it.

Unfortunately it took me 4 years to figure this out. I want to switch it to CA but I need to edit the CFE.bin which I can't seem to get. Questions:

1) Would flashing DDWRT to the router give me easy access to the cfe.bin?
2) How would I change the country code?
3) Would the country code "stick" if I flashed back to Asus firmware (I need AI mesh)

All help appreciated.

 

[JDB]

Is the country not selectable at the bottom of Wireless Professional tab?

Note that you will only be able to use this as the AiMesh master. Trying to use it as a Node requires factory reset and so back to CN.

I have a grey import 5300 and have replaced it since building my AiMesh (need to sell it really).


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[miroco]

Maybe this post can be of help.

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/asus-rt-86u-blocked-in-chinese-language.63733/

 

[Hawk]

Being an early adopter bit me in the butt. When the RT-AC88U originally came out, it was not available in Canada so I got it from Gearbest. Unfortunately it has CN as the country code, with all the power and channel restrictions that come along with it.

Unfortunately it took me 4 years to figure this out. I want to switch it to CA but I need to edit the CFE.bin which I can't seem to get. Questions:

1) Would flashing DDWRT to the router give me easy access to the cfe.bin?
2) How would I change the country code?
3) Would the country code "stick" if I flashed back to Asus firmware (I need AI mesh)

All help appreciated.

Boot loader is encrypted, even if you flash DD-WRT, it won't allow modification to boot loader thus can't modify it. All new Asus router are using encrypted boot loader or CFE.