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Kallippide's avatar
Aug 10, 2019
Solved

Solid Amber Light

Hi,

I am having difficulty with a solid amber light burning continuously on my router.

 

Yesterday I added a Sengled Hub to control my Smart bulbs. No problems with adding the hub. However, after a few minutes I got a solid amber light on my router. 

 

The Sengled hub cable is in port 1. The amber light is on the front of the router #1.

 

Everything else works correctly. (My modem is Arris by Xfinity.)

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. 

 

 

  • As per the fine documentation, p.14 Table 2. LED and button descriptions (Continued):

     

    Ethernet ports 1–4

    The LED color indicates the speed: white for Gigabit Ethernet connections and amber for 100 Mbps or 10 Mbps Ethernet connections.
    • Solid white or solid amber. A powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.
    • Blinking white or blinking amber. Data is being transmitted over the port.
    • Off. No powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.

5 Replies

  • schumaku's avatar
    schumaku
    Guru - Experienced User

    As per the fine documentation, p.14 Table 2. LED and button descriptions (Continued):

     

    Ethernet ports 1–4

    The LED color indicates the speed: white for Gigabit Ethernet connections and amber for 100 Mbps or 10 Mbps Ethernet connections.
    • Solid white or solid amber. A powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.
    • Blinking white or blinking amber. Data is being transmitted over the port.
    • Off. No powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.

    • myersw's avatar
      myersw
      Master

      schumaku wrote:

      As per the fine documentation, p.14 Table 2. LED and button descriptions (Continued):

       

      Ethernet ports 1–4

      The LED color indicates the speed: white for Gigabit Ethernet connections and amber for 100 Mbps or 10 Mbps Ethernet connections.
      • Solid white or solid amber. A powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.
      • Blinking white or blinking amber. Data is being transmitted over the port.
      • Off. No powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.

       

       


      They probably went cheap on the Ethernet connection. My Netgear Arlo camera base is a 100Mbps connection and gives a orange light indicating 10/100. No more traffic then these will create to the Internet, a 10/100 Ethernet connection is fine. 

      • Kallippide's avatar
        Kallippide
        Guide

        Thank you for your reply. I won’t worry anymore about the light being on!

    • Kallippide's avatar
      Kallippide
      Guide

      Thank you so much for your help. I didn’t realize that the amber light was okay. The router is several years old and I couldn’t find the manual anywhere. Thanks for sending me the info.