NETGEAR EX8000 fails and blinks all white legs and green power led

[iPostuma]

Hi,

just baught an EX8000 extender for my house, and it wasn't booting up properly.

I had something similar to the issue posted here -> https://community.netgear.com/t5/WiFi-Range-Extenders-Nighthawk/NETGEAR-EX8000-fails-to-exit-quot-fa...

Since the other post soves the problem on a windows machine, I wanted to share the steps to solve it on a mac/linux system:

1. Download the latest firmware for your device (it should be an .img file)
2. Disconnect your pc from wireless and/or wired internet connection.
3. Connect your pc via ethernet to the modem, set the address manually to:
   ip 192.168.1.3
   subnet 255.255.255.0
   router 192.168.1.1
4. From a bash terminal 
   cd Path/to/Firmware/Directory
   tfdp -e 192.168.1.1 69
   put DownloadedFirmware.img
5. Wait till the upload is completed ( I had to wait approximately 20 seconds)
6. Reset the device by pressing the reset button for approximately 30 seconds (I had to wait that time to see the power led blink red)
7. Wait 5 to 10 minutes while the system reboots
8. Navigate to http://mywifiext.local/
9. If 7 fails try switching the device off and then back on and repeat step 6
10. If point 7 succeeded, set-up the extender.
11. Switch your wired network configuration back to DHCP
12. Test your internet connection by testing your network speed on https://www.speedtest.net
13. Turn of the extender and put it wherever you like !

Hope it may help someone

Cheers

[plemans]

thanks for posting that. Sad to see that you needed to do so