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Netgear Nighthawk 7000 Tomato Flashing
Hello all. I am in an effort to install Tomato firmware on a new R7000 Nighthawk I just purchased (never been connected to the internet before). After installing the initial file, I am no longer ab...
jaeholme wrote:Sorry if this was not the right place for this question.
This is certainly the place for that questions. But the number of people qualified to answer it is limited. Most people here stick with the official firmware.
If this is an unofficial "hand-rolled" firmware, then you are probably in the wrong place for solutions.
The official support team is in no position to help, and while there are some people here who use custom firmware there are almost certainly more over in the places where they write that sort of stuff.
Having said that, you could search this place on Tomato firmware. If nothing else, that may tell you how to recover the standard firmware.
Thanks - I'll look through some other tomato sites to see if I can get more info. Sorry if this was not the right place for this question.
jaeholme wrote:Sorry if this was not the right place for this question.
This is certainly the place for that questions. But the number of people qualified to answer it is limited. Most people here stick with the official firmware.
Yes, sorry if I sounded rude in my response. I didn't mean that you shouldn't ask that sort of question here, just that it's probably not the best place to receive help.
You could try posting here at the main Tomato forum where the developers of the various Tomato variants hang out: http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?forums/tomato-firmware.33/
Or try here at the Netgear subforum of SmallNetBuilders: https://www.snbforums.com/forums/netgear-ac-wireless.53/