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Nighthawk Router Login page redirecting to https://accounts-qa.netgear.com/
I am trying to get logged into my Nighthawk router, but every time I try to hit the local login page by IP from my computer, it redirects to https://accounts-qa.netgear.com/ with an Access Denied err...
Hardware Version RAX54v2
Firmware Version 1.1.4.2B
Neither Chrome nor Edge allow a login to work. Incognito Mode does not work either.
A Hardware Reset may resolve the situation for the first login, but once the device is setup and configured again, it is likely to return to the same failure state because either the firmware will not be downgraded by a hardware reset, or if the firmware is downgraded by a reset, reinstalling the firmware update will reintroduce the same software defect. Since this failure is quite obviously a defect Netgear introduced, Netgear needs to release a firmware update to fix what they broke.
You'll need to Factory reset and setup from scratch and give that a try. Been others that have already posted about this and the FR has helped them. Same went for my RAX50v2 as well. I just checked it yesterday and I still have access it it's web page.
FR does not downgrade or upgrade FW. Only clears out any user configurations or bad FW behaviors that maybe seen.
You could downgrade the FW back to prior version.
Otherwise, you'll need to make contact with NG support and let them know what your seeing.
https://my.netgear.com/support/contact.aspx
https://www.netgear.com/support/contact.aspx
Then clicking on "Get answers about NETGEAR products before I buy" then clicking on "Networking for Home" then "Chat with us".
Good Luck