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VistaGrande
May 18, 2020Tutor
Orbi RBR50 Non responsive, won't factory reset
After two years of working flawlessly my Orbi RBR50 router stopped working. I have two satellites RBS mdels connected to it. The power light is on and it is green. I tried to cycle the power - did...
234arcdd123
Aug 19, 2021Aspirant
Same exact issue. The thing just stopped working one day about a month ago.
- Factory Reset doesn't work
- Power LED always solid green
- No halo led light on top
- When I try TFTP method my computer is claiming I'm not even plugged into anything.
If you look at the dates of posts, this is pretty clearly a bad firmware upgrade that bricked our satalites and Netgear doesn't seem to care.
FURRYe38
Aug 19, 2021Guru - Experienced User
Revert FW back to prior working FW?
234arcdd123 wrote:
Same exact issue. The thing just stopped working one day about a month ago.
- Factory Reset doesn't work
- Power LED always solid green
- No halo led light on top
- When I try TFTP method my computer is claiming I'm not even plugged into anything.
If you look at the dates of posts, this is pretty clearly a bad firmware upgrade that bricked our satalites and Netgear doesn't seem to care.
- 234arcdd123Aug 19, 2021AspirantI’m not sure how I could. It stopped connecting to the router. I tried connecting it directly to my PC over wired ethernet and doing the Tftp method, but my computer couldn’t even tell that the cable was plugged in.