Why are these devices so hard to factory reset. I have 3 different mesh setups from Netgear, between my family and me upgrading, and everyone of them have been virtually impossible to reset.
Most of the time the standard press the reset button till the amber light blinks does nothing. I press the reset and the light doesn’t do a thing. When it does go amber and flash it still doesn’t actually do anything. Same custom settings, WiFi name, password, etc.
On the devices that don’t do anything the 30-30-30 does seem to get the amber light to work, but still actually reset anything. So far my only solution is to use a laptop and plug in an Ethernet cable and do a reset from the web interface.
Why is this so difficult? This is not just one product either, I have ad this issue on a nighthawk mesh, and older Orbi, and a newer Orbi. The only thing I can think of is this is Netgear’s way of keeping people from selling their products used as I have had to work really hard to setup products that I have bought second hand and my brother actually gave up on the used nighthawk setup he bought because he couldn’t get it to reset and the previous owner didn’t have the admin password.
