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Power Surge with NIghthawk AC2300 model: R7000P
Power surge yesterday. Netgear router turns ons, but does not produce wifi connection (i.e. no SSID showing up on devices). Connected to cable modem. Everything else works fine - I hooked up a...
Have you tried pushing and holding the wifi on/off button for 2 seconds?
Thankk you for the reply. I held down the wifi button several times, but the lights on 2.4 or 5GHz never came on
Power surges are great at wrecking electronics.
The only other thing I'd try would be using tftp/nmrpflash to force firmware to it. If the surge corrupted the firmware, you'd need to do something like that to correct it.
are you on windows? if so, follow this guide
https://kb.netgear.com/000059634/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-Windows-TFTP
just make sure you enable tftp
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-tftp-windows-10
and here's a video walk through using a tftp client. Use the built in one for windows 10 though. the video is more of an example of how its done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9DLrLQrpaw
and if that doesn't work, you can try using nmrpflash
https://github.com/jclehner/nmrpflash