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R7000 does nit start anymore. LEDs keep blinking
Since this morning I had problems with connecting to my WiFi so I rebooted the router. Unfortunately it doe not come up anymore and the LEDs (almost all) are blinking in a certain pattern. Maybe firm...
- Thanks all for your help. I decided to throw my 2 year old router in the garbage can. Netgear will not help me, because it's too old and indeed no TFTP client will help because its stuck in a restart loop.
Extra information: The reset button did nothing. No changing in LED blinking. I also added an animated gif so you see the pattern.
Your router was most likely set to auto update the firmware and in the process got bricked instead. You should turn that option off once you hopefully recover the router using TFTP
https://kb.netgear.com/000059633/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-TFTP-client
Thank you very much for your answer microchip8! Unfortunately the mac version of the TFTP client I need is outdated and does not work on my laptop with MAC OS 10.15.7 . Any other ideas how I can use TFTP to send the new firmware?
I'm trying to us pumpKIN and that works, but the connectoin to the router is up and down every 2 seconds, because it seems my router is stuck in restarting itself over and over. Because when the power LED is going off and on again my connection seems to drop and connect again.
Any other idea how I can fix my router?
