My extender was working fine yesterday. I moved it to a socket in another part of the house, and now it's just sitting there booting forever. By that I mean a slow pulsing blue power light. I have tried resetting it via the reset socket multiple times. And turning on and off via the power button. And also unplugging and plugging it back in. Nothing. It just sits there blinking. The blue power LED never goes solid. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Well I dunno, after a day or so of not being able to get it to work, I plugged it in to try your idea of holding the reset button down for 30 seconds, and what do you know? I got a solid blue light after a short time. So now it's working just fine again.

Oh, the extender I have doesn't have an ethernet plug on it. So no way to connect it to a pc...

Usually if something is corrupt, its red. Odd thats its slow blinking blue. If you hardwire a pc/laptop into it, does it get an ip address or can it access it? when you're resetting, are you holding for up to 30 seconds

Glad to hear you got it working! You might mark it solved so others aren't still trying to fix it 🙂

So I had it going again, in my office (off of our living area) right next to me and the router. I moved it about 10 metres away, still in the same living area, still in line of sight of the router, and the same thing happened. Slow blinking light. I left it overnight, thinking it might sort itself out, but nope. So then, just now, in the morning I unplugged it and plugged it back in, and within a short time it booted up again and is working. I did plug it back into a different socket on the power strip I'm using. I wonder if that could have anything to do with it? Or I might have a partially faulty unit. I'll play around a bit more.

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plemans
Guru - Experienced User
Dec 16, 2022
Usually if something is corrupt, its red. Odd thats its slow blinking blue.

If you hardwire a pc/laptop into it, does it get an ip address or can it access it?

when you're resetting, are you holding for up to 30 seconds
- Davo36
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  Dec 16, 2022
  Well I dunno, after a day or so of not being able to get it to work, I plugged it in to try your idea of holding the reset button down for 30 seconds, and what do you know? I got a solid blue light after a short time.
  
  So now it's working just fine again.
  - plemans
    Guru - Experienced User
    Dec 16, 2022
    Glad to hear you got it working! You might mark it solved so others aren't still trying to fix it 🙂

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Netgear EX7500 not booting up.