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christynchee
Sep 18, 2019Aspirant
My R7000 cant connect to the internet
Hello, Out of the blues on a perfect warm summers day, my Nighthawk router decided "huh, what a great day to rebel againt my owner." Yes, I lost all connection to my wifi, even xfinity was like "I...
christynchee
Sep 19, 2019Aspirant
Oooff, my warrenty just ran out and to get customer support, I would need to pay extra. However, I am also considering a new router since with all the problems I have researched about.
plemans
Sep 19, 2019Guru - Experienced User
If you purchased it in febuary your 90 days of free support has expired but not the 1 year warranty. Not saying the 90 days of support is great as usually the community can help more. Unless you bought it used/refurbished, then your warranty might be in question.
If your power led is on, thats a good sign. Most people can recover it via tftp if thats on and they can hardwire into the router.
Here's how to do it on windows.
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
and turning on tftp within windows.
- christyncheeSep 19, 2019Aspirant
tried that and it did not work, the connection light is still orange and my laptop says cable not connected which it is.
- plemansSep 19, 2019Guru - Experienced User
What are all the lights going? not just one?
red/amber/green/off, blinking/solid
And did you follow the instructions exactly? If you miss a step, type something wrong, it won't work.
And you enabled tftp? You're using windows 10?
- Netduma-FraserSep 19, 2019NetDuma PartnerYou may want to post this here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/bd-p/home-wifi-routers-nighthawk as well so you get more responses as this is the NPG range of routers community.