NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
Why does one of my R7000P ethernet lights blink orange. I have it connected to a 4 port POE switch.
Received a R7000P Netgear Nighthawk router for Xmas. I have it connected, but am puzzled why one of the 4 ethernet ports blinks orange.
I have this port connected to a 4 port POE switch. I can change the connection of the router's ports (from 4 to 3 example) and the light will change numbers as to the ethernet cable connected to the POE switch. Help me out someone; do I have a faulty router?
minusten wrote:Received a R7000P Netgear Nighthawk router for Xmas. I have it connected, but am puzzled why one of the 4 ethernet ports blinks orange.
I have this port connected to a 4 port POE switch. I can change the connection of the router's ports (from 4 to 3 example) and the light will change numbers as to the ethernet cable connected to the POE switch. Help me out someone; do I have a faulty router?
Is the POE switch rated for 100mb or 1gb, normally amber is a 100 mb connection?
Guessing that no matter which router lan port you connect the switch to the router the results are the same?
The blinking normally shows a active data flow, steady no data flow.
2 Replies
minusten wrote:Received a R7000P Netgear Nighthawk router for Xmas. I have it connected, but am puzzled why one of the 4 ethernet ports blinks orange.
I have this port connected to a 4 port POE switch. I can change the connection of the router's ports (from 4 to 3 example) and the light will change numbers as to the ethernet cable connected to the POE switch. Help me out someone; do I have a faulty router?
Is the POE switch rated for 100mb or 1gb, normally amber is a 100 mb connection?
Guessing that no matter which router lan port you connect the switch to the router the results are the same?
The blinking normally shows a active data flow, steady no data flow.
> Received a R7000P Netgear Nighthawk router for Xmas.
Do yourself a favor. Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your
model number, and look for Documentation. Get the User Manual. Look
for "Table 1. LED descriptions".
> I have this port connected to a 4 port POE switch.
Not a very detailed description of anything. If your "a 4 port POE
switch" has 10/100MHz ports, then that would account for the amber LED
color on the router LAN port.