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Internet light is orange, but internet works fine?
Hey everyone,
I'm having a problem with my router that started happening after I moved to a new place. When plugged in, All lights turn Green except the Internet Light, Which remains orange. No...
Maybe you just have to live with it. You seem to have tried everything.
Oh, dear just noticed this. According to Netgear's manual for this device the LAN and WAN support only 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX. That makes it slower than many newer internet services and most modern network hardware.It also slows down whatever is going on in your local network. Newer devices support 1000BASE-TX.
I'd lay money on your internet connection being faster than 100 Mbps.
This is a basic and inexpensive router. Time for a replacement.
Yes, The internet is faster than 100Mbps. Or, It can be. So its orange because the internet is faster than the router can handle? I'm only paying for 100 up/down, and its "Restricted" to that speed on the ISP side. With that being said, If I wanted I could easily be paying for gigabit speeds. I just can't see why I'd ever need more than 100Mbps. I've yet to run into a bottleneck with videos, gaming, or any form of streaming.
Aikarion wrote:
I'm only paying for 100 up/down, and its "Restricted" to that speed on the ISP side. With that being said, If I wanted I could easily be paying for gigabit speeds. I just can't see why I'd ever need more than 100Mbps. I've yet to run into a bottleneck with videos, gaming, or any form of streaming.
I'm with you on the much vaunted "need for speed". I get ~65Mbps (VDSL) and never sense that the speed is slowing internet things down.
But there is one further thing to consider. You say that you pay for 100 Mbps. There is a chance that there is a bit of headroom on top of that 100 Mbps. It won't be a lot, maybe as much as 10 Mbps, and not worth buying a new router. Maybe the orange light is saying. "You are throttling me."
My main concern would be that the limit on my local network is 100 Mbps. I have a couple of PCs always on and half a dozen network storage devices and other stuff. I do notice slowdowns in moving stuff between devices if I use anything stuck at 100 Mbps.
But my network is for work, with a lot of things happening.