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EX6100v2 all lights on
Hello. My wifi extender was working fine and out of nowhere just stopped working. All the lights stay one no matter what u do. Unplugging or factory reset doesn't do anything. I can't even do the firm...
When the power light is orange, its indicating something is either failing in the bootup process, corrupt, or hardware failure.
You can try recovering 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 walkthrough using a TFTP client. Use the built-in one for Windows 10, though. The video is more of an example of how it's done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9DLrLQrpaw
and if that doesn't work, you can try using nmrpflash
https://github.com/jclehner/nmrpflash
Here's a video of nmrpflash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxQu3wtpFYo