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Red Flashing Power Light
Found the Wi-Fi network on the other half of my house wasn't performing as exptected, check on the externder and it had a red flashing power light and white flashing lights for the notification LEDs.
I've seen a few posts from years back of people having to exchange their extenders as it was a software/hardware fault. Was hoping some progress may have been made since that could perhaps flash the extender or such to get it back to working state.
Power LED is green for around 10 - 15 seconds before it then turns to flashing red. Holding the reset button does nothing. Tried power draining and all manor of resets.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Device is 3 years 2 Months old.
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To note - I also tried and apparently successfully deployed the firmware through tftp but still flashing with no usable extender
tftp can fail at many points does it successfully flash or what error did you get?
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
Windows advises it completes successfully in CMD. Extender just sits there with a red flashing light on the power LED but every other LED is off.
tftp is definately enabled.
Haven't had a go at the NMRP flash, but looking at it I'm not sure I'd know how to. I'll see what I can do with that and will report back.
Thank you
