NETGEAR R7500 User Manual page 10

Table 1. LED and button descriptions
LED Description
Power • Solid amber. The router is starting.
• Blinking amber. The firmware is upgrading, or the Reset button was pressed.
• Solid white. The router is ready.
• Blinking white. The firmware is corrupted.
• Off. Power is not supplied to the router.
Internet • Solid white. The Internet connection is ready.
• Solid amber. The router detected an Ethernet cable connection to the modem.
• Off. No Ethernet cable is connected between the router and the modem.
2.4 GHz WiFi • Solid white. The 2.4 GHz WiFi radio is operating.
• Blinking. The router is sending or receiving WiFi traffic.
• Off. The 2.4 GHz WiFi radio is off.
5 GHz WiFi • Solid white. The 5 GHz WiFi radio is operating.
• Blinking. The router is sending or receiving WiFi traffic.
• Off. The 5 GHz WiFi radio is off.
USB 3.0 port 1
• Solid white. A USB device is connected and is ready.
and USB 3.0
• Blinking. A USB device is plugged in and is trying to connect.
port 2
• 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.
eSATA • Solid white. An eSATA device is connected and is ready.
• Blinking. An eSATA device is plugged in and is trying to connect.
• Off. No eSATA device is connected.
Ethernet ports The LED color indicates the speed: white for Gigabit Ethernet connections and amber for 100
1–4 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 Pressing this button for two seconds turns the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi radios on and off.
button with LED
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 This button lets you use WPS to join the WiFi network without typing the WiFi password. The
LED WPS LED blinks white during this process and then lights solid white.
You can use the LED On/Off switch on the rear panel of the router to turn the LEDs on the
top of the router on or off. See
Nighthawk X4 AC2350 Smart WiFi Router
Turn the LEDs On or Off
Hardware Setup
10
on page 11.