RBR40 red flashing power light help!

[JNoom]

Hi,

Quite randomly today, my router (RBR40) stopped working.  Its white ring is pulsing, and the power light is flashing red.  The manual tells me this means there is a corrupted firmware update (must have been doing it automatically as I didn’t prompt it).  Now, no matter how often I try to reset the router, it doesn’t work.  Importantly it produces no wifi signal, so I can’t connect to the router via wifi (I’ve downloaded the firmware file to my mac), and connecting to it via Ethernet, I can’t seem to connect to it via a web browser using the usual 196.168.0.1 address, so can’t update that way.

Is there any other way I can connect to this hub to fix this issue, or should I go shopping for a new system?

Thanks for your thoughts!

[plemans · Accepted solution]

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

[plemans · Accepted solution]

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

[JNoom]

Amazing! I’m on Mac, but the link you sent from netgear included a Mac solution. All up and running and happy kids! Thanks!

[plemans]

glad it fixed the issue!

A backup is always a good option in case you ever need to factory reset/reinstall again