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Have owned for about a year. Most status lights are currently blue. recently purchased a cat 6 ethernet cable to attach to laptop and the status light is RED. Why the diffence between blue and red status lights? Will the difference cause harm to my router?
was asked as a reply "which status light". The status lights corresponding to ethernet port 2, 3, 4, (tried all three) all light up red whenever I plug in my laptop It was even suggested that I download the manual and it would explain it to me. Nothing in there about red lights that I have found.
The LED color indicates the speed: white for Gigabit Ethernet connections and amber for 100 Mbps or 10 Mbps Ethernet connections. • Solid white. A powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port. • Blinking white. The port is sending or receiving traffic. • Off. No device is connected to this Ethernet port.
I'm sure that the light is NOT amber, it is as red as as an apple. I have cable modem connected to the ethernet port, desktop computer connected to ethernet port #1 (both lights are blue/clear. Laptop is connected to ethernet port #2 and light is RED. We need to have the router connected to modem and desktop so that everyone else in the house can connect their devices and use the wireless network however this particular laptop needs an ethernet connection.
the laptop that is connected to the router does seem to work properly and without any problems, I'm puzzled by the red light when all other lights are blue/clear. Could if be possible that the ethernet cables are classifed as cat 6? The other two ethernet cables are cat 5.
