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Hi i am used to upgrading firmware on a windows PC in the past for various firmware versions of a netgear router,pretty basic you download the zip file and then just upload it as a zip file into the correct upgrade section of the router.
However these firmware versions on a imac come down as a img file and when i upload and try and do a upgrade it does not work.
Am i missing something here and do i have to do something to the file to turn it into a zip file or whatever,do i need another extracting program or what as i am in the dark as to how to upgrade both my netgear routers using a Imac.
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Mac is not my thing but......IMG files are similar to .ISO files and can be burnt to their correct disk format by most burning software
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That sounds like a disk image file. Double-click on it and it should appear as a mounted disk. The firmware is probably on that disk.
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From the Netgear site, it's a .IMG file, not zipped. You just d/load it your PC. Does not matter what type of PC it is; it is just stored there but not processed.
You then use the Web i/f of the router to do Maintenance => Router Upgrade and from there Browse to where you stored it on PC. It is then actually processed by the router's processor, not that of the PC.
You did obtain the firmware from the pukka Netware site? It will work from there on any PC.
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To avoid any misunderstandings:
.img files are NOT disk images *. As stated above, in this case they are just compressed images of the Netgear operating software. You download the image file to your Mac, then install it onto the Netgear router using the router's web interface - typically at the url: http://192.168.0.1/. You can do this using Safari or Firefox or any other web browser you want to run on your Mac.
Log in as "admin". If you haven't changed the password (you should, you know!), it will still be the default one listed on the router's label.
Click "Upgrade Router" in the left hand column, and select the .img file you downloaded.
* .dmg files are disk images on a Mac.
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Parrot! To avoid any misunderstandings:
.img files are NOT disk images I never implied they were! You must have the misunderstandings:
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.img files are NOT disk images That's news to me, and to Apple. .img files may not be disk images, but they also may be.* As the OP stated that he had tried uploading the image file to the router, and it did not work, I was suggesting alternative possibilities. It's not that difficult to at least test the possibility.
* It's true that disk images are often .dmg files, more often than .img, but that is not exclusive. Apple know best. 
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I guess Alan replied to the wrong post. But, in any case, he was completely wrong to state that .img files could not be disk images.
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It's irrelevant! The .IMG files supplied by Netgear are solely intended to be processed by their routers via any PC.
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Edited by XRaySpeX (Thu 22-Dec-11 22:14:28)
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via any PC. I think you may be (unintentionally) confusing the issue...
"PC" implies what used to be known as a an "IBM-compatible" and doesn't include Macs. Any computer with an Ethernet port and a browser should be able to update the firmware on a router, from a hacked ZX81 to a Cray!!!
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The author of the above post is a thinkbroadband moderator but it does not constitute an official statement on behalf of thinkbroadband.
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Nit-picking!
I use "PC" to mean any computer for personal use. Wikipedia agrees with my use. Unfortunately there is no recognised abbreviation for computers in general (puter? LOL!) and I am fond of abbrevs.
So I use "PC". It can be applied a Mac, Apple II, PDP11, Rair Black Box, ... , even a Cray if you just use it at home 
Yes, I was there when "PC" used to be known as a an "IBM-compatible" but those days are long past. Now you can buy the same "box" and inhabit it with "IBM-compatible" Windows or Linux (of various flavours) or anything else (even a ZX81 simulation  ). You are living in the past!
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You are living in the past! I'm well aware of that, but you might not be- to give you a clue I was born in 1943
The computers weren't really very powerful in my youthful days, but they were much more fun... 
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A challenge!
I was born 2 years before then
Trouble is Colossus had no Ethernet nor any connection to the rest of the computers in the world ... cuz there were no others! And then we took a sledge hammer to it and then there were none 
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A challenge!
I was born 2 years before then
Trouble is Colossus had no Ethernet Ethernet was invented in 1973 and introduced commercially in 1980.
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I was born 2 years before then Good grief, someone else who was around when the world was real- welcome brother 
I know of Colossus but don't remember it... though I was at AERE Harwell when Atlas was built. A whole building devoted to a computer with less power than a modern mobile phone
I think that was the first one when it was really brought home that a limitation on computing power was the speed that electrical signals could travel down a wire... the velocity of light wasn't high enough!
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Colossus was the machine designed by Tommy Flowers of GPO Research for Bletchley Park to break the Enigma code.
I programmed for Atlas at UMIST in about 1964. Atlas did introduce Virtual Memory and paging and stuff.
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I never actually used Atlas, my work at the time was more involved with reactor experiments with DIDO. First time I really got exposed to computers was when I moved to AWE Aldermaston, with their IBM 360s accessed over a site WAN...
Via ASR33's at 110 baud.
Broadband, what's that?
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And then we took a sledge hammer to it and then there were none Actually that's not true: they went to Cheltenham and were in use until the 60s (the "broken up" story was a cunning ruse to put the Ruskies off the scent).
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a cunning ruse to put the Ruskies off the scent Africans, actually, to whom we sold re-conditioned Enigmas.
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I don't like to see misinformation promulgated so dogmatically, relevant or not.
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a cunning ruse to put the Ruskies off the scent Africans, actually, to whom we sold re-conditioned Enigmas.
Was more about about Lorenz/ Tunny, which the Russians did not know we had broken.
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Sorry, didn't realise you were referring to a much earlier post.
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Edited by XRaySpeX (Fri 23-Dec-11 19:33:55)
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(You seem to be having trouble working out who you are replying to)
That we sold Enigma to African (and other) states is not in dispute.
But Enigma was only the second most important code broken by Bletchley Park and Colossus Mk2 was fundamental to it.
Either way, your original assertion that they were destroyed is not true.
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Duh! Has nobody got a GSOH? This all started off as a
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That post is certainly irrelevant!
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he's a Troll, don't worry.
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I never actually used Atlas, my work at the time was more involved with reactor experiments with DIDO. First time I really got exposed to computers was when I moved to AWE Aldermaston, with their IBM 360s accessed over a site WAN...
Via ASR33's at 110 baud.
Broadband, what's that?
WAN? we never had a WAN when we got back from the pit after a 23 hour shift we had to run between puters with pieces of paper with 1's and 0's on.
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Colossus was the machine designed by Tommy Flowers of GPO Research for Bletchley Park to break the Enigma code.
Colossus was used to break the Lorentz cipher, the decoding of enigma was done on the bombes.
BT -> Zen -> F2S -> Bulldog -> Be* -> BT Infinity
Say it with flowers, give her a Triffid Edited by TheHorseman (Fri 23-Dec-11 21:16:34)
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Colossus was the machine designed by Tommy Flowers of GPO Research for Bletchley Park to break the Enigma code.
Colossus was used to break the Lorentz cipher, the decoding of enigma was done on the bombes.
Designed by Alan Turing.
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