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Chrch's avatar
Chrch
Aspirant
May 18, 2021
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XR500 Blinking Red Internet LED

Router has been working fine. Get home and Internet LED is blinking red and lost router connection to Internet. Have tried cycling the modem, factory reset, nothing has worked. Internet works when wir...
  • plemans's avatar
    May 18, 2021

    what actual modem do you have? 

     

    Try this. 

    Power off both the modem and the router. disconnect everything from both (even coax from modem).

    Wait 2 minutes. 

    connect coax back to the modem. 

    power the modem on and wait 2 minutes. 

    connect the modem to the router. 

    power the router on and wait 2 minutes. 

    Try it then.