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What the heck does all this mean? "Dirty Install?"
What the heck does all this mean? "Dirty Install?" I am a 75-year old computer neophyte, and I wanted to see if the new Version 12 update for the Orbi 970 router was fine to install or is it full of...
Thank you!
Thank you for your comments and suggestions. I did read all the update instructions and and watched the Netgear video. I went to the support page for Orbi 970 and 971 and scrolled to the update section and clicked on the DOWNLOAD button.
Oddly the 2 update files that I downloaded (one for satellites and one for router) had an odd description that gave me pause. They were listed as "recovered file fragments" and ended in chk. I am wondering if they are the correct files.
peggywarner .chk is the correct extension for firmware files. You can use these to manually update your satellites and router.
Thanks so much, you gave me confidence!