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Orange / Red light on my netgear nighthawk router
Hi I got en new Nighthawk and when connecting the ethernet cables i get on one port a red light on the other port the lights are white.(when transfering data) even changing the cable into an othe...
althogh the tester did not indicate any problems, a new connector fitted and it works great now.
Problem solved
thank you all
all the best
Be
One of two things. Either you are using an CAT5 Ethernet cable, or the device only supports 10/100Mbps. Manual - What the LED colors mean. Pages 11 and 12.
netwrks wrote:One of two things. Either you are using an CAT5 Ethernet cable, or the device only supports 10/100Mbps. Manual - What the LED colors mean. Pages 11 and 12.
The red(Amber) light is for 10/100mb connections and the white is for 1gb connections. Netwrks is right the device connected can make the light red(amber) or white and a small possible that the lan cable has a broken pair of wires as it takes all four pairs for a 1gb connection and only two for a 10/100mb connection.
A RJ-45 Lan cable tester can test the cable for you if you access both ends at one point.
Thank you so much for your reply, I am using cat 6 cable but home made connections so yes it can be that the cable has wrong connections.
I will go for a tester and see if this is the problem
all the best
bep
althogh the tester did not indicate any problems, a new connector fitted and it works great now.
Problem solved
thank you all
all the best
Be