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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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Great! Unfortunatley this amber LED is kind of an industry standard to indicate the lower negotiated link Speed (typically because the connected device/switch/cable does not allow more). And indeed it looks "worng" for many consumers.
