I have recently installed the nighthawk MK83 WiFi mesh. The configuration I wanted was probably WAY out of the norm since I wanted the WiFi devices to have IP addresses on a Class A 10 net. This is mainly because I have a pretty darn good ASUS router already running, and it has a lot of configuration that would have to be transported, including DHCP reservations, VPN configuration, etc. Well apparently, after spending a couple of hours on chat with Netgear support, that cannot be done. I was about to box it back up and return it, but decided to get the user manual and go through it. And there it was! All I had to do was define the router piece as an access point. Tadaaa. Everything started running perfectly, and all of the problems I was having with my old system vanished.
But now for the subject of this post. All has been running great for a couple of weeks or more, and all three NightHawk devices, the MR80 and the two MS80s, all had blue lights on. Now all of a sudden, after weeks of use, the MR80 piece has an orange light.
From what I can find out, the orange light means the router has no Internet access. Well, since the MR80 isn't a router but is an Access Point, of course it has no Internet access because basically there is no router. So is this a "normal" status, or does an orange light on an access point mean something different? Since it is all still running perfectly, I assume the former. And is there a way to make it blue?
