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Router ring shows purple on occasions
To all in the Orbi community:
My Orbi router shows purple on its ring from time to time; it stays that way for a while, but not for all that long. No apparent loss of functionality when this o...
BillYoung wrote:
To all in the Orbi community:
My Orbi router shows purple on its ring from time to time; it stays that way for a while, but not for all that long. No apparent loss of functionality when this occurs. I'd like to know what this means. Thanks to anyone for their responses.
FW: 2.1.4.16
Router is in router mode.
Any other information about the router needed, please ask.
Purple ring indicates the Orbi router lost contact with the Internet, even momentarily. Either your ISP-modem connection went down, or your Orbi router to modem connection went down.
BillYoung wrote:
To all in the Orbi community:
My Orbi router shows purple on its ring from time to time; it stays that way for a while, but not for all that long. No apparent loss of functionality when this occurs. I'd like to know what this means. Thanks to anyone for their responses.
FW: 2.1.4.16
Router is in router mode.
Any other information about the router needed, please ask.
Purple ring indicates the Orbi router lost contact with the Internet, even momentarily. Either your ISP-modem connection went down, or your Orbi router to modem connection went down.