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Guru - Experienced User

Aug 08, 2019

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FirmWare Corrupted

I just bought a new RBK53 for my son and had Amazon deliver it to his house (clear across the United States). I came on a visit to replace his old Nighthawk with the Orbi, and one of the two satelli...

FURRYe38
Aug 08, 2019
You might try to see if you can get FW loaded via the TFTP method on the RBS:
https://kb.netgear.com/000059633/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-TFTP-client

IF this fails, send back to Amazon. :smileyfrustrated:

FURRYe38

Guru - Experienced User

Aug 08, 2019

You might try to see if you can get FW loaded via the TFTP method on the RBS:

https://kb.netgear.com/000059633/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-TFTP-client

IF this fails, send back to Amazon. :smileyfrustrated:

CrimpOn

Guru - Experienced User

Aug 08, 2019

Bless You, it worked! Naturally, I had brought my lightest laptop running Linux. Back to the command line to load and run tftp client. I gave this less than a 1% chance, and the satellite updated to 2.3.5.30 and connected automatically!

FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Aug 08, 2019
Awesome. Glad it worked.

Enjoy. :smileywink: