Hardware features, Router front panel – NETGEAR DGN2000 User Manual

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Getting to Know Your Wireless Router

Hardware Features

Before you install and connect your router, take a moment to become familiar with the front and
back panels of the router—especially the LEDs on the front panel.

Router Front Panel

The wireless-N modem router front panel shown below contains status LEDs.

You can use the LEDs to verify various conditions.

Table 1

describes each LED.

Figure 1

Table 1.

LED Descriptions

Label

LED Activity

Description

Power

Solid Green

Solid Red

Off

Factory reset

Power is supplied to the router.

POST (Power-On Self-Test) failure or device malfunction

Power is not supplied to the router

Lights momentarily when the Wireless On/Off and WPS buttons on
the side panel of the router are pressed simultaneously for 6
seconds, then blinks red three times when the wireless and WPS
buttons are released, and then turns green as the gateway resets to
the factory defaults.

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