RBS50 pulsing white permanently

[billypatel]

Hi 

I have had a orbi rb50 and an rbs50 working moslty ok for the past few years. 

This is in a uk household with virgin media.

This week, the satellite has stopped working, and just pulses white.

I have tried many times to do a factory reset without luck.

I have trawled the depths of the internet for solutions and the one i keep seeing is to tftp previous firmware to the router.

That is the bit that is confusing me, the router is working fine. So how does tftp older firmware to the router fix the satellite?

Should i not be instead tftp'ing the older firmware to the satellite?

I tried connecting to the satellite via an ethernet cable but i cannot connect to it, despite setting my local ip to static etc.

Anyone have any info on how to revert the satellite FW to an older version?

[plemans]

Does the satellite work if you hardwire it into the router? 

[billypatel]

when you say hardwire? you mean an ethernet cable from one of the router ethernet socket to the satellite? if so then yeah, i tried that, still pulses white.

[plemans]

the default ip address for a factory reset satellite is 192.168.1.250

any luck using that to access it if you have a hardwired in pc/laptop?

[billypatel]

i cant browse to 192.168.1.250, i get a "site cant be reached" page in chrome

I can ping it though, so when i try to tftp FW to it, i get a "Transfer timed out" error when i attempt to PUT the img i downloaded from netgear support.

[billypatel]

I’ve come to the conclusion that my satellite is dead. Spent many hours trying and it just remains pulsing white.

So… I want to replace the satellite. Can I purchase any orbi satellite or does it have to be an rbs50?

[plemans]

RBS20, RBW30, RBS40, RBS40V, RBS50, RBS50Y

All those will integrate. 

nmrpflash didn't work to downgrade the firmware? 

[billypatel]

Not come across nmrpflash, will give it a go.