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wingdam
Aug 06, 2021Star
RAX200-V1.0.5.126_1.0.65 bad zip
I've downloaded this 3 times and win zip, 7zip and winrar all report a bad zip file.
Re downloaded today and everything unzipped. Old downloads still bad.
It must have been something with the ISP.
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> I've downloaded this 3 times and win zip, 7zip and winrar all report a
> bad zip file.Worked for me.
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RAX200/RAX200-V1.0.5.126_1.0.65.zip
$ ls -l RAX200-V1.0.5.126_1.0.65.zip -rw-r--r--@ 1 sms staff 77595565 Aug 5 20:36 RAX200-V1.0.5.126_1.0.65.zip $ unzip -t RAX200-V1.0.5.126_1.0.65.zip Archive: RAX200-V1.0.5.126_1.0.65.zip testing: RAX200-V1.0.5.126_1.0.65.chk OK testing: RAX200-V1.0.5.126_1.0.65_Release_Notes.html OK No errors detected in compressed data of RAX200-V1.0.5.126_1.0.65.zip.
What are the name and size of your "a bad zip file"?
I gave it a shot and it worked for me as well.
What are you downloading on?
What's telling you its a bad file?
You're not trying to open/execute it are you? it'll be uploaded when you follow the manual update procedure.
https://kb.netgear.com/23960/How-do-I-manually-update-the-firmware-on-my-NETGEAR-router
have you tried the built in windows one or 7zip?
Re downloaded today and everything unzipped. Old downloads still bad.
It must have been something with the ISP.
> It must have been something with the ISP.
Or anything else which touched the data.
And now we can see why zip archives include basic checksums, allowing
a simple data-integrity check. And one reason that organizations like
Netgear distribute such files in such archives. (Clearly, the slight
compression was, by itself, not worth the bother.)