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Rudders64
Jan 28, 2019Tutor
RBR50 Ring flashing white continuously
The RBR50 appears to have broken itself during an update two days ago. Router ring continuously flashing white, no WiFi network, can't access the router via cable, factory resets unsuccesful! Just a ...
FURRYe38
Jan 28, 2019Guru - Experienced User
Did you press in the back reset button until the top LED on the router turned Amber, then let go and see if you can access the orbi's web page at 192.168.1.1? See if your PC get an IP address from the router after this...If not, then the router is probably broke.
You can try this with the Orbi router:
https://kb.netgear.com/000059633/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-TFTP-client
Try the TFTP client already built into Windows...
Rudders64 wrote:
The RBR50 appears to have broken itself during an update two days ago. Router ring continuously flashing white, no WiFi network, can't access the router via cable, factory resets unsuccesful! Just a dead brick flashing mournfully on the desk and two useless pink glowing satellites!
My router is setup as an AP to share a mesh through a second building. It connects via cable to the primary router which is a Nighthawk X6. This has been working nicely for about 10 months but is now useless.
The flashing does cease after a long period of time but there is no activity from Orbi.
I would love to provide the firmware version but I can't access the router to find out.
This appears to be a similar proble to on that occured 18 months ago to satellites. Ther emay have been other instances as well but I haven't found those threads. Other than physically replacing the RBR50 is there a solution?