Rear Panel - NETGEAR R8000 Nighthawk X6 AC3200 User Manual

Table 1. LED and button descriptions (continued)
LED Description
USB 3.0 port The USB 1 LED is for the USB 3.0 USB port on the front panel. The USB 2 LED is for the USB
2.0 port on the rear panel.
USB 2.0 port
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•
•
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.
•
•
•
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
page 12.

Rear Panel

The rear panel connections and buttons are shown in the following figure.
USB 2.0 LED On/Off
port switch
Figure 3. Router rear panel
Pressing the Reset button restores the factory settings. See
Nighthawk X6 AC3200 Tri-Band WiFi Router
Solid white. A USB device is connected and is ready.
Blinking. 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.
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.
Turn the LEDs On or Off Using the LED On/Off Switch
Ethernet
LAN ports 1–4
Hardware Setup
Internet USB 3.0
port port
Factory Settings
11
on
Reset Power Power
button connector On/Off
on page 180.