Change of the factory-wired region in NETGEAR routers

When buying a NETGEAR router abroad, many are faced with the fact that it does not support many standards of Russian Internet providers, such as L2TP protocols and various variations of the functions necessary for IPTV to work.
It was discussed at various forums that in order to change the region to Russia, it is necessary to rewrite Bootloader, but in practice, in most cases this is not required. To change the region, on most models it is enough to drive the appropriate commands through Telnet. You can read about how to access the router via Telnet here .

And so, here are the commands:

For models on Broadcom chips, such as WNR3500L, WNR3500Lv2, WNDR4500, R6300

burnsku 0x0002

The answer should be like this

burnsku OK

This command transfers the router to the WW region, it is with this code that these models are delivered to Europe. For the Russian functionality to work, you need to select Russian in the WEB interface.

For models based on Atheros chips with OpenWRT-based firmware, such as WNR2200, WNDR3800, WNDRMAC, WNDR4300

artmtd -w regionset RU

The answer should be like this

argv[3] = RU
write region number: 0x0005
Unlocking /dev/mtd1 ...
Writing from /tmp/temp.img to /dev/mtd1 ...  [ ][e][w][w][w][w][w][w][w][w][e][w][w][w][w][w][w][w][w]
The region number is: 0x0005
REGION: RU

Good luck.