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Aspirant

Mar 05, 2021

RBR50 router appears to be bricked after factory reset

I am passing on my RBR50 and 3 satellites to a relative, so I performed a factory reset on all of the devices in preparation for that. When trying to install them in the new house, though, I cannot ...

The_Zyph

Aspirant

Mar 06, 2021

Since I wasn't specific, here are the links/instructions I have already tried:

https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-RBR50-Non-responsive-won-t-factory-reset/td-p/1915495

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/RBR-stopped-working-and-won-t-factory-reset/m-p/2040603

https://kb.netgear.com/31486/How-do-I-reset-my-Orbi-system-to-factory-default-settings

https://www.netgear-orbi-setup.com/how-to-troubleshoot-if-an-orbi-routers-wi-fi-network-system-is-in-offline-state/

https://netgear.yonyx.com/y/conversation/?id=ce490ec0-11b4-11e8-840d-bc764e10c19d&did=cfa550e0-7ecf-11eb-8663-4201c0a80141&lang=en

antinode

Guru

Mar 06, 2021

> [...] here are the links/instructions I have already tried: [...]

I could (but won't) read thousands of such items and still have no
idea what you actually did, and still less of an idea of what happened
when you did whatever you actually did.

Possibly more appropriate forums:

https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/ct-p/home-orbi