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Hi, I am having difficulty with a solid amber light burning continuously on my router. Yesterday I added a Sengled Hub to control my Smart bulbs. No problems with adding the hub. However, after ...
As per the fine documentation, p.14 Table 2. LED and button descriptions (Continued):
Ethernet ports 1–4
The LED color indicates the speed: white for Gigabit Ethernet connections and amber for 100 Mbps or 10 Mbps Ethernet connections.
• Solid white or solid amber. A powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.
• Blinking white or blinking amber. Data is being transmitted over the port.
• Off. No powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.
As per the fine documentation, p.14 Table 2. LED and button descriptions (Continued):
Ethernet ports 1–4
The LED color indicates the speed: white for Gigabit Ethernet connections and amber for 100 Mbps or 10 Mbps Ethernet connections.
• Solid white or solid amber. A powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.
• Blinking white or blinking amber. Data is being transmitted over the port.
• Off. No powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.
schumaku wrote:As per the fine documentation, p.14 Table 2. LED and button descriptions (Continued):
Ethernet ports 1–4
The LED color indicates the speed: white for Gigabit Ethernet connections and amber for 100 Mbps or 10 Mbps Ethernet connections.
• Solid white or solid amber. A powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.
• Blinking white or blinking amber. Data is being transmitted over the port.
• Off. No powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.They probably went cheap on the Ethernet connection. My Netgear Arlo camera base is a 100Mbps connection and gives a orange light indicating 10/100. No more traffic then these will create to the Internet, a 10/100 Ethernet connection is fine.
Thank you for your reply. I won’t worry anymore about the light being on!
Great! Unfortunatley this amber LED is kind of an industry standard to indicate the lower negotiated link Speed (typically because the connected device/switch/cable does not allow more). And indeed it looks "worng" for many consumers.
Thank you so much for your help. I didn’t realize that the amber light was okay. The router is several years old and I couldn’t find the manual anywhere. Thanks for sending me the info.
