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RBR40 red flashing power light help!
Hi,
Quite randomly today, my router (RBR40) stopped working. Its white ring is pulsing, and the power light is flashing red. The manual tells me this means there is a corrupted firmware update (must have been doing it automatically as I didn’t prompt it). Now, no matter how often I try to reset the router, it doesn’t work. Importantly it produces no wifi signal, so I can’t connect to the router via wifi (I’ve downloaded the firmware file to my mac), and connecting to it via Ethernet, I can’t seem to connect to it via a web browser using the usual 196.168.0.1 address, so can’t update that way.
Is there any other way I can connect to this hub to fix this issue, or should I go shopping for a new system?
Thanks for your thoughts!
You can try recoving it with tftp or nmrpflash.
are you on windows? if so, follow this guide
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
just make sure you enable tftp
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-tftp-windows-10
and here's a video walk through using a tftp client. Use the built in one for windows 10 though. the video is more of an example of how its done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9DLrLQrpaw
and if that doesn't work, you can try using nmrpflash
https://github.com/jclehner/nmrpflash
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You can try recoving it with tftp or nmrpflash.
are you on windows? if so, follow this guide
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
just make sure you enable tftp
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-tftp-windows-10
and here's a video walk through using a tftp client. Use the built in one for windows 10 though. the video is more of an example of how its done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9DLrLQrpaw
and if that doesn't work, you can try using nmrpflash
https://github.com/jclehner/nmrpflash