Ports, Buttons, And Connectors On The Back Panel - NETGEAR R6900v2 User Manual

Table 2. LED and button descriptions (Continued)
LED and Button Description
Guest WiFi Solid white. The guest WiFi network is operating.
Blinking white. The router is sending or receiving WiFi traffic.
Off. The guest WiFi network is off.
USB 3.0 port 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.
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 white or solid amber. A powered-on device is connected to the Ethernet port.
Blinking white or blinking amber. The port is sending or receiving traffic.
Off. No device is connected to this Ethernet port.
WiFi On/Off button Pressing this button for two seconds turns the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi radios on and off.
with LED
If this LED is solid white, 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 WPS
LED LED blinks white during this process and then lights solid white.
For information about disabling LED blinking for network communications and turning off all LEDs except
the Power LED, see

Ports, Buttons, and Connectors on the Back Panel

The back panel of the router provides ports, buttons, antenna connectors, and a DC power connector. For
information about attaching the antennas, see
Figure 2. Router back panel
In addition to the three antenna connectors, viewed from left to right, the back panel contains the following
components:
Nighthawk AC1900 Smart WiFi Router Model R6900v2
Disable LED Blinking or Turn Off LEDs
Hardware Overview of the Router
on page 160.
Attach the Antennas on page 10.
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