Amber Ethernet LED on Modem

[kgeoffrey]

Howdy,

I have a Nighthawk R7000 router and CM400 modem. From what I have read here, the amber ethernet LED indicates my connection is 10/100, but the R7000 is supposed to handle 1 Gigabit.

All my lights on the R7000 are white.

Do I have some kind of misconfiguration? Is there a solution to get my ethernet LED green?

Thanks!

[plemans · Accepted solution]

have you tried swapping in a new ethernet cable? I've seen sketchy cat 5e only connect at 10/100mbps. 

[plemans · Accepted solution]

have you tried swapping in a new ethernet cable? I've seen sketchy cat 5e only connect at 10/100mbps. 

[kgeoffrey]

I will try that. Thanks.

[michaelkenward]

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@kgeoffrey wrote:

Howdy,

I have a Nighthawk R7000 router and CM400 modem. From what I have read here, the amber ethernet LED indicates my connection is 10/100, but the R7000 is supposed to handle 1 Gigabit.

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Which LED are you talking about? The LAN LEDs indicate the speed of devices plugged into the LAN ports. They are not related to the link between the router and the modem.

[kgeoffrey]

Thanks @michaelkenward I'm talking about the ethernet LED on the CM400. Mine is not green. It is amber.

[plemans]

did you try a different cable? 

If you direct connect a pc/laptop to the modem, does it connect at gigabit speeds? 

[michaelkenward]

Go it. I couldn't see that from your first message.

[kgeoffrey]

@plemansI have not tried a new cable yet. That is next on my to-do list.

[kgeoffrey]

@plemansIt was the cable. Awesome.

Thanks so much!

[plemans]

Glad it was an easy fix!

If you mark it solved, it might help the next person

[michaelkenward]

Great. An inexpensive fix!

People sometimes overthink problems and assume the sky has fallen in when in reality it is a simple one to sort out.

Now we can add another one to the "cable fixed it" category.