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I got an email about a firmware update and followed the instructions. I downloaded the file but have to browse to locate the file and nowhere does it tell me the file name to search for or what folder it downloaded to. Please help. Running Windows 10 attached to the router
I was following the instructions in the email and that was failing. So I took your advice and downloaded the .zip file from the NetGear website - and extracted the .img - and uploaded that to the rouiter and it worked just fine.
> [...] I downloaded the file but have to browse to locate the file and > nowhere does it tell me the file name to search for or what folder it > downloaded to.
What, exactly, did you download? From where? And to where? Which browser are you using? Did you look in your Downloads folder?
From what I see for a WNR2000v5, the file should be named "WNR2000v5-V1.0.0.62.zip", from which you'll need to extract the file "WNR2000v5-V1.0.0.62.img" therein. As the instructions at the target of the "Release Notes" link on the Downloads page say, the ".img" file is what you send to the router.
> I'm getting an error message on the download - MD5 Verify error
"getting" from what, exactly? What, exactly, does "download" mean? Send to the router? (My D7000 (V1.0.1.50_1.0.1) says "Upload".)
If so, then that sounds like a corrupt kit. If the ".zip" archive were corrupt/incomplete, then you should get a complaint when its contents are extracted. An MD5 complaint points to the ".img" file itself, which would most likely be Netgear's fault. You might try re-extracting the ".zip" archive contents, but I wouldn't expect much to change.
I was following the instructions in the email and that was failing. So I took your advice and downloaded the .zip file from the NetGear website - and extracted the .img - and uploaded that to the rouiter and it worked just fine.
