I have just purchased a AC1900 (R7000) Nighthawk Netgear router. It is installed and working fine, except tha the LAN Led for the ethernet port that my powerline AV500 is connected is not white. It is blinking red (or ambar?). A check the Powerline network (genie e powerline tool) and I believe the data is going trough. Why is the lED red not White?Am I loosing intenet speed ? Is there any special configuration that has to be done either on the Netgear? or on the Powerline ? Thank you, Paul

What's the exact model number of your adapter? The XWNB5201, for example, is a Powerline AV 500 adapter but it only has a 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet port.

Ac1900 (r700) - LAN led is ambar (or red), not white, for Powerline av500. Is it ok ?

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TheEther
Guru
Nov 30, 2015
Am amber/red light indicates that the Ethernet port is connected at 100 Mbps. Your Powerline AV500 probably has a 100 Mbps Ethernet port.
- PASBM
  Tutor
  Nov 30, 2015
  Hi TheEther,
  
  Thank you for the reply, but the tech epec of the AV500 say:
     Bridge Performance
        MAC addresses: 64
         Bandwidth 500 Mbps
     Powerline Performance Compatibility:
        HomePlug AV, IEEE 1901
        Data Transfer Rate: Up to 240 Mbps
        Frequency band: 1.8 – 68.5 Mbps
        Modulation type: OFDM symbol modulation
  
  So I think it is more than 100 mbps.
  
  May be there is some where a configuration to be ajusted ?
  
  Thank you again,
  
  Paul
  - TheEther
    Guru
    Nov 30, 2015
    What's the exact model number of your adapter? The XWNB5201, for example, is a Powerline AV 500 adapter but it only has a 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet port.

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