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Profax
May 31, 2020Aspirant
ORBI RBR50 - Impossible to reset after power failure
Hi, After a power failure at home, I lost the access to my orbi router. I reboot both equipments the one after the other as described in ORBI documentation, connect with an ethernet cable to my ...
Profax
Jun 01, 2020Aspirant
Thanks for your reply. That's what I did last time it happened (not the first time actually).
But this time my computer do not even recognize there is an Ethernet cable plugged in my Orbit :)
FURRYe38
Jun 01, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Try this method:
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.
Profax wrote:Thanks for your reply. That's what I did last time it happened (not the first time actually).
But this time my computer do not even recognize there is an Ethernet cable plugged in my Orbit :)