Front Panel With Leds - NETGEAR BR500 Hardware Installation Manual

Front panel with LEDs

The front panel contains the status LEDs.
Figure 1. Front panel
The following table describes the LEDs.
Table 1. LEDs on the front panel
LED Description
Power LED Solid green. The router is powered on.
Blinking green. The router is booting or shutting down.
Solid amber. The router did not boot successfully.
Blinking amber. A firmware update is in progress.
Off. Power is not supplied to the router.
WAN LED Solid green. The router established an Internet connection but is not processing Internet
traffic.
Blinking green. The router established an Internet connection and is transmitting or
receiving packets.
Solid amber. The router attempted but failed to establish an Internet connection.
Blinking amber. The router is in the process of establishing an Internet connection.
Off. No cable is not connected to the Internet port or the cable is not connected to an
Internet modem.
Cloud Connection LED Solid blue. The router is connected to the cloud server and is set up to be managed by
NETGEAR Insight.
Off. The router is not connected to the cloud server or is set up to be managed by the
local browser interface.
VPN LED Solid green. The router established a VPN connection.
Off. The router did not establish a VPN connection.
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