5
Table 1. LEDs
LED
Description
Power
•
Solid amber
. The router is starting up.
•
Blinking amber
. The firmware is upgrading, or the
Restore Factory Settings button was pressed.
•
Solid green
. The router is ready.
•
Blinking green
. The firmware is corrupted. See
www.netgear.com/support
.
•
Off
. Power is not supplied to the router.
Internet
•
Solid green
. The Internet connection is ready.
•
Solid amber
. The Ethernet cable connection to the
modem has been detected.
•
Off
. No Ethernet cable is connected to the modem.
Wireless
•
Solid blue
. The wireless radio is operating in either 2.4
GHz or 5 GHz mode.
•
Blinking
: The router is in WPS mode.
•
Off
. The wireless radios are off for both 2.4 GHz and 5
GHz.
USB
•
Solid blue
: The router has accepted the USB device. The
USB device is ready to be used.
•
Blinking blue
: A USB HDD is plugged in and is trying to
connect.
•
Off
: No USB device is connected, someone clicked the
Safely Remove Hardware button and it is now safe to
remove the attached USB device.
HDD
•
Solid green
: The internal HDD is working fine;
•
Solid green plus red
: The HDD is 85% full.
•
Blinking green
: Someone pressed the
Backup
button;
SD card data is being copied to the internal HDD.
•
Blinking green and red
: The HDD is 95% full.
•
Solid red
: The HDD is not formatted, the HDD connection
is loose, or failure alert.
•
Off
: No internal HDD is connected.
