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ashahid
May 26, 2021Aspirant
EX 8000 power light flashing green
I have having an issue with my EX8000 extender where the Power light keeps flashing green and will not stop. All the lights on the front keep flashing white. I have tried to reset the device and noth...
antinode
May 26, 2021Guru
> [...] the Power light keeps flashing green [...]
I know nothing about the EX8000, and I didn't see the documentation
mention a flashing power indicator, but on typical router models, that
would indicate corrupt firmware.
You may be a candidate for the TFTP recovery scheme. See, for
example:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1622096#M102004
For a typical router, the default LAN IP address is "192.168.1.1",
or, for a modem+router, "192.168.0.1". According to the EX8000 User
Manual, its default IP address "192.168.1.250". If that holds when its
brain is fried, then you'd need to specify that address instead of one
of the ".1" addresses (which is normally suggested in the instructions)
when attempting the TFTP firmware load.
> [...] I just unplugged the device [...]
That should be a pretty safe operation, but sometimes a transient
event can disturb a gizmo like this.