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TheBone
Feb 17, 2020Follower
EX6400 WiFi Extender - Green Power light blinking
We can't get our extender to work at all. It was working fine until a couple of months ago. Now the green power light blinks. There are no other lights that are lit at all. We have tried factory ...
plemans
Feb 18, 2020Guru - Experienced User
Usually a blinking powerline signals either a hardware failure or firmware failure.
You can try restoring it with a tftp procedure. This can recover it sometimes.
here's the procedure for windows 10.
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
Make sure to enable tftp from within windows 10 if you use it.
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-tftp-windows-10
And here's a video on using tftp on a netgear extender.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9DLrLQrpaw