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Can't factory reset my Nighthawk X8
Good morning all, our Netgear R8300 suddenly stopped working while I was not at home a couple of weeks ago. I managed to set my wife up with a backup router. Now that I am home I was trying t...
This sounds to me like a bricked router. You most likely had the Automatic Firmware Update option on, which isn't really recommended on NG firmware due to its horrible bad state
You can perform a TFTP and see if you can debrick it
https://kb.netgear.com/000059633/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-TFTP-client
This sounds to me like a bricked router. You most likely had the Automatic Firmware Update option on, which isn't really recommended on NG firmware due to its horrible bad state
You can perform a TFTP and see if you can debrick it
https://kb.netgear.com/000059633/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-TFTP-client
Sorry for my late replay but a huge thanks to you. I was looking for something like that but couldn't find it in the kb myself.
this indeed worked. The router feels a bit sluggish but it should survive the next two weeks until I will replace it with a Ubqiuiti router anyways :)
thanks again for your help.