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Nighthawk Mesh wifi extender EX8000 blinking red power light
My extender just stopped working about a week ago and every since has had a blinking red power light. All other led lights are blinking white. I can't get into mywifiext site to update the firmware. ...
When I type in "cd desktop" it says that it can't find the path specified. It looks like this:
C:\users\myname>cd desktop
so then it can't read from the local file.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I downloaded the firmware file to my desktop and followed all the other steps.
did you watch the video? It walks you through how to use it
The video walks you through using a tftp client that you download. I did not try that. I was using the site that was provide using the command prompt screen, which is not included in the video (unless I'm looking at the wrong video)
The command prompt is not working, so if you have someone more direct on those instructions, that may be helpful. Otherwise, I may try downloading the third party tftp client and see if that works.
there's quite a few different guides that walk you through it on youtube if you do a quick search
I'll see what I find. It's frustrating that Netgear can push out an update that then freezes my extender, but then want me to pay for their help and not support their product. It's just another way for them to force people into paying for more products.