Table 1. LED descriptions (Continued)
Description
LED and Button
The LED color indicates the speed: white for Gigabit Ethernet connections and
amber for 100 Mbps or 10 Mbps Ethernet connections.
• Solid white. The router detected a 1 Gbps link with a powered-on device.
• Blinking white. The port is sending or receiving traffic at 1 Gbps.
• Solid amber. The router detected a 100 Mbps or 10 Mbps link with a
powered-on device.
• Blinking amber. The port is sending or receiving traffic at 100 Mbps or 10
Mbps.
• Off. No device is connected to this Ethernet port.
Ethernet LEDs for ports 1–4
• Solid white. A USB device is connected and is ready.
• Blinking white. A USB device is plugged in and is trying to connect.
• Off. No USB device is connected, or someone clicked the Safely Remove
Hardware button and it is now safe to remove the attached USB device.
USB 3.0 port LED
Pressing the WiFi button for two seconds turns WiFi LED and WiFi radios on and
off.
If this LED is lit, the WiFi radios are on. If this LED is off, the WiFi radios are turned
off and you cannot use WiFi to connect to the router.
WiFi LED
Pressing the WPS button lets your WPS-enabled device join your router's WiFi
network without typing the WiFi password. The WPS LED blinks white during
the WPS process and then lights solid white when the WPS-enabled device
connects to your router's WiFi network.
WPS LED
User Manual
11
Hardware Setup
Nighthawk AX5 5-Stream WiFi Router
