Rear Panel With Ports, Buttons, And A Dc Connector - NETGEAR D8500 User Manual

LED
USB 3.0 port 1 and USB 2.0 port
2
Ethernet ports 1–6
Note For information about troubleshooting with the LEDs, see
on page 250.
Table 2. Front panel button descriptions
Button
LED
WPS
WIFI

Rear Panel With Ports, Buttons, and a DC Connector

The rear panel components are shown in the following figure.
AC5300 WiFi VDSL/ADSL Modem Router Model D8500
Description
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Solid white . A USB device is connected to the USB port and is ready.
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Blinking . A USB device is plugged into the USB port and is trying to connect.
•
Off . No USB device is connected to the USB port, or someone clicked the
Safely Remove Hardware button and it is now safe to remove the attached
USB device.
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.
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Blinking .The Ethernet port is sending or receiving traffic.
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Off . No powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.
Description
Pressing this button changes the LED mode.
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Mode one . All LEDs stay on and blink.
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Mode two . All LEDs stay on but do not blink.
•
Mode three . Only the Power LED stays on and the other LEDs are off.
Pressing this button lets you use WPS to join the WiFi network without typing the
WiFi password. For more information, see
Router on page 19.
Pressing this button for two seconds turns the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz 1, and 5 GHz 2
WiFi radios on and off.
Hardware Overview of the Modem Router
Troubleshoot With the LEDs
Join the WiFi Network of the Modem
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