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crabbiest
Aspirant
Nov 17, 2018
Solved

LAN Port LED is blinking R7800

First post and new Netgear user.   New R7800 appears to be working flawlessly. I have 2 devices connected to LAN ports 1 and 3. The first port is a desktop and the third port is a printer. I was ...
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  • microchip8's avatar
    microchip8
    Nov 17, 2018

    A tiny amount of traffic goes on even when a device is idle and does nothing. This is keep-alive and also DHCP/DNS polling

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crabbiest
Aspirant
Nov 17, 2018

Thanks to microchip8 and meyersw! I thought it was likey nornmal. The blink rate for the LAN port LEDs on my old Linksys wrt1900ac were different (and slower) for the port the printer was connected.

 

So far this new netgear router rocks. 5+ stars out of 5 for the wireless range.

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myersw
Master
Nov 17, 2018

Glad it is working well for you. IMHO the r7800 is the best go to Netgear router right now. May not have all the shinny goo gaus of the newer, but the r7800 seems to work for most folks where the newer don't.