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christynchee
Sep 18, 2019Aspirant
My R7000 cant connect to the internet
Hello, Out of the blues on a perfect warm summers day, my Nighthawk router decided "huh, what a great day to rebel againt my owner." Yes, I lost all connection to my wifi, even xfinity was like "I...
christynchee
Sep 19, 2019Aspirant
tried that and it did not work, the connection light is still orange and my laptop says cable not connected which it is.
plemans
Sep 19, 2019Guru - Experienced User
What are all the lights going? not just one?
red/amber/green/off, blinking/solid
And did you follow the instructions exactly? If you miss a step, type something wrong, it won't work.
And you enabled tftp? You're using windows 10?
- Netduma-FraserSep 19, 2019NetDuma PartnerYou may want to post this here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/bd-p/home-wifi-routers-nighthawk as well so you get more responses as this is the NPG range of routers community.