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The Nighthawk ax8 8500 power up lights Flash bottom front blue Wi-Fi light goes on but no Wi-fi lights on it in the front and no network shows on any of my devices for it I had it on for 2 days one ti...
Its only the power light that comes on?
You might have a corrupt firmware.
You can try recoving it with tftp or nmrpflash.
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