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Red light appears when TV is connected into a Nighthawk AC4000 (R8000P) LAN port
What does it mean when a front LAN indicator light is red? Our Nighthawk AC4000 is brand new. We plugged in an LG 65" OLED TV into a LAN port (#4) using a CAT-7 Ethernet cable. The #4 front indicator...
> What does it mean when a front LAN indicator light is red? [...]
If only there were some kind of documentation for your router which
described its LED indicators and what they mean. But wait!!!Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read. Look for the
LED descriptions.Is your "red" what Netgear calls "amber"?
> [...] TV [...]
A TV does not need gigabit/s speed to do its job.
> [...] the fastest internet service we can buy is 15Mbps. Is that the
> cause of the red indicator?
No, that's strictly a LAN Ethernet question; it's independent of the
speed of your Internet service. But it ought to be clear that if your
Internet connection speed is much less than 100Mb/s, then LAN speeds of
100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s should be pretty tough to distinguish. Neither
would be where your bottleneck lies.
> What does it mean when a front LAN indicator light is red? [...]
If only there were some kind of documentation for your router which
described its LED indicators and what they mean. But wait!!!
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read. Look for the
LED descriptions.
Is your "red" what Netgear calls "amber"?
> [...] TV [...]
A TV does not need gigabit/s speed to do its job.
> [...] the fastest internet service we can buy is 15Mbps. Is that the
> cause of the red indicator?
No, that's strictly a LAN Ethernet question; it's independent of the
speed of your Internet service. But it ought to be clear that if your
Internet connection speed is much less than 100Mb/s, then LAN speeds of
100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s should be pretty tough to distinguish. Neither
would be where your bottleneck lies.
I had consulted the User Manal, but all I saw about LED colors was "white" and "amber." And everybody I showed the light to called it "red." So I assumed that the red light meant there was some sort of a problem with the TV, the cable, or the router that was not addressed in the Manual.
Thanks again for your input!