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Orbi RBR50 bricked
Bricked, shut down, and tried everything in the forums, eveyrhting, the hard reset didn't help, the TFTP could not connect properly. I have decades of computer experience. The RBR50 and rbs50 are expensive bricks. At best it may connect if I do some hard resets, but just go on and off. And re-bricks. I ordered a newer model at Costco and I don't have it yet, so my life at home is messed up.. trying to use some old crappy routers that I did not throw away. At they work enough to get online. But barely enough power for Firesticks. Warranty ended 11 months ago.
My computers and TV and Internet were fine, went outside yesterday for 30 minutes came back in and everything was down, and they were bricks, Spent 12 hours trying everything that I had learned in my life and engineering careers. I cannot even get into the menu in the Orbi router. I had to move on. I have old routers that are 15 years old or more that still work. But not this less than 2 year old Orbi. With the new purchase ordered and coming, it better not be very very expensive brick again.
the new one is:
NETGEAR - Orbi RBK753S AX4200 WiFi 6 Mesh
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Have you tried swapping a power supply from one of the satellites to the router?
It wouldn't be the first time I'd seen a power supply cause issues.And if the router isn't work, the satellites are effectively worthless.
sorry, I just saw your answer.. No, I did not swap the psu out (I may have, but cannot be absolutely sure as it has been a while)... I considered throwing the pos out or selling it... I put to much time in it... I tried using the serial connection and different computers and operating systems to try to get it working folowing the dircetions posted all over the internet to fix it.. nothing helped...
