Hardware Setup
11
Nighthawk AC1900
Smart WiFi Router
You can disable LED blinking or turn off all LEDs except the Power LED. For information
about how to do this, see
Disable LED Blinking or Turn off LEDs
118.
Rear Panel
The rear panel has the connections and buttons shown in the following figure.
USB 2.0
Ethernet
Internet
Power
Power
port
LAN ports 1–4
Reset
button
port
connector
On/Off
Figure 3. Router rear panel
Pressing the Reset button restores the factory settings. See
Ethernet ports
1-4
The LED color indicates the speed: white for Gigabit Ethernet connections and amber for 100
Mbps or 10 Mbps Ethernet connections.
•
Solid
. A powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.
•
Blinking
. The port is sending or receiving traffic.
•
Off
. No device is connected to this Ethernet port.
WiFi On/Off
button with LED
Pressing this button for two seconds turns the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz 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.
WPS button with
LED
This button lets you use WPS to join the WiFi network without typing the WiFi password. The
WPS LED blinks white during this process and then lights solid white.
Table 1. LED and button descriptions (continued)
LED
Description