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xiaoxian
Oct 11, 2021Aspirant
Dead RBS50
I have a rbs50, looks like dead now. 1)solid green 2)no network activated 3)no ring light on top 4) can't reset 5) no wifi So I checked all in mother board of the router, Power suplly is all g...
FURRYe38
Oct 11, 2021Guru - Experienced User
If this fails then the RBS needs to be replaced:
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
Need to press the reset button for 30 seconds then release, then it send to PUT the command and upload the FW.
I had a problem on a Windows 10 PC where this didn't work to use TFTP, so I switched to a WIndows 7 PC and the TFTP worked.
Try nmrpflash?
Others have had luck with that when tftp didn't work
https://github.com/jclehner/nmrpflash
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