network connector lights are orange; only wireless, no wired;

I have FIOS, fiber optic internet, with 2 computers connected. At the
router, both are flashing green, but the network connector on the
laptop, the left led is orange and the right one is flashing orange.

On the desktop it's the same. I'm in Safe mode, I have no internet.
Witht he same settings in msconfig, I used to.

It soundsto me like my new router is not working right. The one that
broke a month ago had no wireless and this seems to have only wireless.
If you remember, when I tried to switch the laptop to the cable, it kept
reconnecting wirelessly. Maybe that was why.

I called Verizon and the conversation was bogged down when I couldn't
disconnect the wiirelss from the laptop. that was strange in itself
but what the orange leds

micky wrote:
I have FIOS, fiber optic internet, with 2 computers connected. At the
router, both are flashing green, but the network connector on the
laptop, the left led is orange and the right one is flashing orange.

On the desktop it's the same. I'm in Safe mode, I have no internet.
Witht he same settings in msconfig, I used to.

It soundsto me like my new router is not working right. The one that
broke a month ago had no wireless and this seems to have only wireless.
If you remember, when I tried to switch the laptop to the cable, it kept
reconnecting wirelessly. Maybe that was why.

I called Verizon and the conversation was bogged down when I couldn't
disconnect the wiirelss from the laptop. that was strange in itself
but what the orange leds



https://www.dell.com/community/Power...SC/td-p/582457

"The link integrity LED can display three states,
Green, Orange and Yellow.

These indicate the three possible network connection speeds,
10Mbps, 100Mbps, and 1000Mbps respectively.

The Network Activity LED is always yellow and blinks
to indicate passing network traffic."

If the Ethernet cable has eight wires (four twisted pairs), then
the cable is ready for 1000Mbps.

If the Ethernet cable only has working 1,2,3,6, then the cable
is 10/100BT ready. The cable could prevent the higher rate
from being used.

If a modem/router is a clunker, the ports on it are 10/100BT.
I have some stuff like that here, no GbE on it.

For FIOS class kit, you expect (but don't always get) GbE Eth ports.

There are several ways to do RJ45 connectors, and the stack
doesn't always have all that color capability. On a cheap computer,
they save the $0.10 by not having LEDs on the connector at all.

The PHY chip has various LED driver options which can
be switched on at design time.

Those LEDs are handy, because when the LEDs change state at
power up, it means the computer motherboard has "released RESET".
If your RESET was jammed on for example, the LEDs never change
state (because the PHY driving the LEDs, is jammed in RESET).
That was one of my debug indicators in the lab, was whether
the NIC LEDs fluttered their characteristic pattern.

Ethernet ports have "Heartbeat", which is some pulsing intended
to show the link is alive. That doesn't have to light any LEDs
necessarily, and I don't even know whether the box would throw
up errors if Heartbeat was missing. OK, the article here sez
that's a Half Duplex function. Not likely to be of interest today.

http://www.ethermanage.com/ethernet/sqe/sqe.html

"Note: The issues of SQE Test apply only to the original
half-duplex Ethernet system, and are not an issue
on modern full-duplex Ethernet links."

Paul