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Netgear Orbi Satellite RBS50 bricked after update. Trying to TFTP to upload firmware. No Luck

Mills32
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Netgear Orbi Satellite RBS50 bricked after update. Trying to TFTP to upload firmware. No Luck

I have 2 Orbi RBS50 satellites that are bricked and I have been trying to use various ways of TFTP to upload the firmware to them and nothing is working. I have tried Tftpd64, the Windows command prompt, and nmrpflash with no success.

 

The satellite blinks a white light 20 times when turned on before it starts to pulsate a white light (this continues forever). I have tested when the orbi satellite pings for 192.168.1.1 and it is on the 3rd blinking white light so I know exactly when to try to push the firmware. I even saw a post where someone said you have to have an earlier firmware for it to work and I tried the firmware ending in 104. I tried using a network switch as well because while trying to push the firmware it doesn't show connected in windows via ethernet until after the 18th-ish blink of light. The network switch should theoretically keep the connection the whole time which it seems as though it did but it still didn't work. I have tried at different times as well. I actually tried at every interval of the white blinking light with all 3 methods listed above.

 

If anyone had any ways of getting it to work I would appreciate it. Mostly looking for people that have actually got a satellite working again. The routers are easier for some reason.

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Mills32
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Re: Netgear Orbi Satellite RBS50 bricked after update. Trying to TFTP to upload firmware. No Luck

I have tried the 30-30-30 hard reset but it did not work.

 

My next option is to try the serial way which is the second forum post you tagged.

 

I will look through the other posts you tagged and see if anything helps.

 

Thanks for the input.

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FURRYe38
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Re: Netgear Orbi Satellite RBS50 bricked after update. Trying to TFTP to upload firmware. No Luck

Let us know how it goes. 

Good Luck. 

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