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BT Infinity Question - orange light on EWAN port

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:46 am
by scwilson
All,

Had BT Infinity installed this morning, connected to the ewan port on my 7800DXL. It's all working just great, but I note that port 4, which is the ewan port, is orange and all other lights are green. The BT openreach modem has all lights green.

Is port 4 on the 7800 not supposed to be green also?

Re: BT Infinity Question - orange light on EWAN port

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 10:14 am
by billion_fan
scwilson wrote:All,

Had BT Infinity installed this morning, connected to the ewan port on my 7800DXL. It's all working just great, but I note that port 4, which is the ewan port, is orange and all other lights are green. The BT openreach modem has all lights green.

Is port 4 on the 7800 not supposed to be green also?
This is because the BT Open Reach modem runs @100mbps, so the LED will be orange, if the BT Open Reach was running @1000mbps then the LED will be green

Re: BT Infinity Question - orange light on EWAN port

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:10 pm
by scwilson
Ok - thanks, that explains it. Why spend on a gigabit port when we don't yet have fibre that can achieve 100mb/sec.