Hardware Setup
9
Broadband ADSL2+ Modem DM111PSPv2
Front Panel
The modem front panel has the status LEDs and icons shown in the following figure.
Power
Ethernet
DSL
Internet
Figure 3. Front panel LED Icons
The following table describes the LEDs and icons on the front panel from left to right.
Table 1. LEDs
LED
Description
Power
•
Solid green
. Power is supplied to the modem.
•
Solid red
. POST (power-on self-test) failure or a device malfunction has occurred.
•
Off
. Power is not supplied to the modem.
•
Restore factory settings
. The LED blinks momentarily when the Restore Factory
Settings button on the bottom of the unit is pressed for 6 seconds. The Power LED then
blinks red three times when the Restore Factory Settings button is released and then
turns green as the gateway resets to the factory defaults.
Ethernet
•
Solid green
. The port has detected an Ethernet link with a device.
•
Blinking green
. Data is being transmitted or received.
•
Off
. No link is detected on the port.
DSL
•
Solid green
. You have a DSL connection. In technical terms, the DSL port is
synchronized with an ISP’s network-access device.
•
Blinking green
. Indicates that the broadband ADSL2+ modem is negotiating the best
possible speed on the DSL line.
•
Off
. The unit is off or there is no DSL connection.
Internet
•
Solid green
. You have an Internet connection. If this connection is dropped due to an
idle time-out but the DSL connection is still present, the light stays green. If the Internet
connection is dropped for any other reason, the light turns off.
•
Blinking green
. Data is being transmitted over the DSL port.
•
Solid red
. The Internet (IP) connection failed. See
No Internet Connection
on page
67
for troubleshooting information.
•
Off
. No Internet connection is detected or the device is in bridge mode (an external
device handles the ISP connection).