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LED ring solid white on Router
Yesterday my network went out in the middle of the day. I tried restarting the Orbi router, but it never recovered -- the ring remains solid white. I restarted several more times, and noticed that so...
I was actually able to revive the Orbi this morning by using TFTP to reflash the firmware. (Following the directions here). After that, the Orbi started up as normal.
So it seems like firmware got corrupted. I'm guessing that the firmware started auto-updating yesterday, and the update was still in progress when my wife restarted the router.
Ah kewl. Good to hear. I recommend manually updating FW with the FW files, using IE11 or FF browsers. Seen bad behaviors when using Chrome.
Glad you got it working. Enjoy now.
FURRYe38 wrote:Ah kewl. Good to hear. I recommend manually updating FW with the FW files, using IE11 or FF browsers. Seen bad behaviors when using Chrome.
Good to know. I've been using Chrome for all my interaction with the admin pages ....
Just to be clear - the extension of this is that you're recommending to use FireFox or IE as the browser to access the Orbi Login & admin pages?
The reason that I ask is that manual firmware updates are done under the 'Advanced, 'Administration' menu and most people wouldn't remember the need to use a different browser for the specific purpose of manual firmware updates (there's been a lot of manual updating for Orbi equipment in my house lately ....) So it's presumably better to use those browsers all the time as the primary interface, to be safe?
Am I interpretting this right?
Only for doing FW updates. Chrome can be used of course to manage and configure the routers features in the UI. I would use IE11 or FF for doing manual FW updates though.