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creator439
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Jul 22, 2021

Amber LAN LED on R7000, have network...

Hi all!

 

I've just replaced my old R7000 with a new one (bad storm came, and whipped its A$$).

 

So with my old one, when I had my PC connected to the router, the LAN was amber, but the network worked fine, and all other LAN connections showed white LEDs.  Didn't pay much attention to it since everything worked.  Now that I've replaced it with another one, I decided to investigate what is causing the LED to be amber.  I read that the amber LED means you are using a 100 or 10Mbps link as opposed to a 1Gbps link, which would show a white LED.

 

Can't figure out why my PC only has a 10 or 100Mbps link.  I'm using Cat5e cable that came from Netgear to run from the LAN port to my PC, and my PC motherboard is rated for Gigabit links...anyone having a problem like this?

2 Replies

  • plemans's avatar
    plemans
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jul 22, 2021

    If you swap ports on the router that the computer is connected, does the port you change it to, also change to amber? 

    Could be a bad lan port on the computer. 

    Could be a bad cable.

     

  • michaelkenward's avatar
    michaelkenward
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jul 23, 2021
    creator439 wrote:

     

    Can't figure out why my PC only has a 10 or 100Mbps link. 

     

    Maybe that's all it can handle.

     

    Hard to tell without knowing more about the PC's hardware.