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Netgear Nighthawk R8000P Firmware Update
Firmware not updating manually nor via router web check option. Nighthawk R8000P Current Firmware Version: 1.4.1.50 Update Firmware Version: 1.4.1.62 I have attempted to update the firmware via the Ro...
I also was unable to update router firmware with the Nighthawk App, it would go for about 2 minutes, then fail, saying to "Try Again" later, which never worked. But it succeeded when I used a browser (FireFox) to 192.168.1.1 and chased it down that way.
So if the device won't upgrade outside of 90 days, you are toast?
I am a post-90 day owner whose Netgear R8000P will not upgrade to the latest firmware. BTW, for those of you who report a successful firmware upgrade, let me warn you. When I run the firmware upgrade on my R8000P it goes through the motions of upgrading the firmware, and the only way to see that it did not is to notice that the version of the firmware you are running is unchanged. I think somebody hacked by router. It somehow became "unsecured" and my login info no longer worked. Neither did my security questions. Before someone asks, no, I did not leave the password at the default "password." The problem with the old firmware is that it suffers from security bugs. If you go to Tom's hardware and look for Netgear security, you can find a long article written in June 2020 about the vulnerability. Also, BTW, my wifi speed was in the crapper. That was what led me to investigate in the first place.
once you realized you had been hacked - did you factory default your router ?
I would contact Netgear directly and let them know what happened , maybe they will make an exception and replace your router.
Some people seem to have success when they stood thier ground and didn't back down... sux they had to do that though..
Yes, I restored factory defaults and set it up all over again. That is when I discovered it would not update the firmware.
So for those of us outside the 90 day warranty period (I'm +-120 days), is our only option to buy a new router? Has anyone outside the warranty period successfully gotten any help from Netgear?
Having the same firmware upgrade problem on my Nighthawk R8000P as others reporting. Trying to upgrade from 1.4.1.50 -> 1.4.1.66_1.3.26
Continues to show my current firmware version as V1.4.1.50_1.3.10
Any ideas on how to fix this? Not super excited about running on a firmware version with a know security vulnerability. I had the same problem one person reported where my router stopped working and all the admin passwords got reset, like it had been factory reset. At that point I couldn't do anything with it so I factory reset it manually and thats how I ended up here.