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Nighthawk Mesh wifi extender EX8000 blinking red power light
My extender just stopped working about a week ago and every since has had a blinking red power light. All other led lights are blinking white. I can't get into mywifiext site to update the firmware. I have connected it to my router with a wired connection. I have tried to reset by pressing the reset button for 7+ seconds. It just won't reboot and work. When I have unplugged it and turned it back on, the power light is green for about 10 second, but then starts blinking red again. I'm not sure what to do. Help please.
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You can try recovering it with tftp or nmrpflash.
are you on windows? if so, follow this guide
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
just make sure you enable tftp
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-tftp-windows-10
and here's a video walk through using a tftp client. Use the built in one for windows 10 though. the video is more of an example of how its done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9DLrLQrpaw
and if that doesn't work, you can try using nmrpflash
https://github.com/jclehner/nmrpflashWhen I type in "cd desktop" it says that it can't find the path specified. It looks like this:
C:\users\myname>cd desktop
so then it can't read from the local file.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I downloaded the firmware file to my desktop and followed all the other steps.
did you watch the video? It walks you through how to use it
