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Nighthawk MR60 Mesh Router Bricked by Firmware Update
This is a report that I apparently posted in the wrong Netgear Community forum earlier this morning. Currently I have a mesh WiFi system in my house, based on the Nighthawk MR60 router, with two ...
Problem solved by taking everything back to the beginning. I cleared all caches in my brower, uninstalled the Nighthawk app on my phone, downloaded the MR60 update, and reset the MR60. Then I manually reinstalled following the instructions in the Nighthawk app which included name and password changes to the MR60 defaults.
More background. I was gone from my residence for 6 days. Everything was functioning well when I left. The MR60 was using firmware version .116. Two days ago on Jan 10, I noticed that my Nest thermostat was offline. (With 20F temps, that concerned me but research showed that the Nest would function without an internet connection.) When I returned home on Jan 11, my network seemed intact but there was no connection by the MR60 to the internet. I went through all the troubleshooting that poison_6022 did with no success. After sleeping overnight I did what I described in the first paragraph and everything is now working well under firmware version .122.
Cheers
Keep us posted on this. Hopefully you sould be ok.
You might try setting up the MR and MS using a PC and web browser next time if you run into any odd ball problems after doing a factory reset.
Be sure to save off a back up configuration to file for safe keeping. Saves time if a reset is needed.
https://kb.netgear.com/24231/How-do-I-back-up-the-router-configuration-settings-on-my-Nighthawk-router
8086_64 wrote:
Problem solved by taking everything back to the beginning. I cleared all caches in my brower, uninstalled the Nighthawk app on my phone, downloaded the MR60 update, and reset the MR60. Then I manually reinstalled following the instructions in the Nighthawk app which included name and password changes to the MR60 defaults.
More background. I was gone from my residence for 6 days. Everything was functioning well when I left. The MR60 was using firmware version .116. Two days ago on Jan 10, I noticed that my Nest thermostat was offline. (With 20F temps, that concerned me but research showed that the Nest would function without an internet connection.) When I returned home on Jan 11, my network seemed intact but there was no connection by the MR60 to the internet. I went through all the troubleshooting that poison_6022 did with no success. After sleeping overnight I did what I described in the first paragraph and everything is now working well under firmware version .122.
Cheers