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WNDR3700v3 Possibly Bricked
I have a very similar to issue to this thread here (the system says that I should create a new thread rather than to revive the old one, so here I am). The link to the instructions for how to upload ...
I'll say you're investing a lot more time in an old/cheap device than I ever would. they can be picked up for under $20 online (ebay) and probably even cheaper on the facebooks. Not sure about you, but my time is worth something and spending to much time on a device thats over a decade old and not very high performing (especially with todays devices), might end up costing me more than it saves.
As I mentioned before, I've already replaced this with the Nighthawk R7000, like six years ago. Something like that.
Rather than trying to spend money on new hardware, _if_ I can revive old hardware that could've/would've worked, and it's not a particularly complicated process/procedure, then I can breathe new life into it.
Again, I have also stated previously that I am currently using an Apple Airport Express as it has one RJ45 port on the back, so it works for now, as a way to get wired networking upstairs. If I need more ports, I can add my 8-port GbE switch to that. But also as I've previously stated, the goal was to see if I can get away with breathing new life back into this router, set it so that it's an AP instead, and then I won't need the Airport Express + switch solution as the built-in 4 RJ45 ports will be more than enough, upstairs.
It takes very little effort to try stuff like executing the procedure for trying to send a firmware .chk file over to the router via tftp and/or the 30-30-30 reset.
As others have pointed it, given those attempts have failed, then the router might be dead dead, but it took maybe like 5 minutes, if that, to try? Something like that.
For 5 minutes -- it doesn't hurt to try.
For my upstairs RJ45 needs, I don't need anything really faster than the old old old Linksys WRT54G series router as not a lot of traffic is running to my system upstairs. It's just that I tried logging into my WiFi, from upstairs, with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and it failed to connect to any of my WiFi networks, hence, I'm running RJ45 only.