ethernet port flashing orange

scotty1991 · 20 Mar 2013 at 21:17

Just noticed that my ethernet port is flashing orange there is a Still green light and a flashing orange light.

was wondering what this means.

Gigabyte X79-UP4 Motherboard

RJC · 20 Mar 2013 at 21:26

Page 20 of the manual mentions one shows the connection speed, ie 100mb or 1gb and the other is for activity.

Crisp89 · 20 Mar 2013 at 21:53

Yeah, it should tell you in the mobo manual which it is, it's just a change of colour to show whether it's running @ 100Mb/s or 1000b/s.

scotty1991 · 20 Mar 2013 at 23:06

It's running at 100mbps

scotty1991 · 20 Mar 2013 at 23:07

My net has been pretty bad all day today tho i normaly get 10meg but iv had 2meg all day dunno why

ots3go · 21 Mar 2013 at 02:09

How are you testing WAN speed?

How many devices are on the network using the connection?

I highly doubt the LAN connection is your bottleneck.

scotty1991 · 22 Mar 2013 at 09:53

It's fine now.

scotty1991 · 22 Mar 2013 at 09:53

I think my net was just capped from downloading a lot from the night before

BuZ · 22 Mar 2013 at 16:12

It's either running at 10Mb/s or 100Mb/s.

Depending on the router if it is 1Gbps (1000Mb/s) it should have backwards compatibility with previous 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s.

Most likely it is a 1Gb/s (1000Mb/s) running at the fastest speed the connected device can run at which is 100Mb/s.

10Mb/s is highly unlikely. It just means it isn't being used to full speed because a device may not support the 1000Mb/s (1Gb/s).

bremen1874 · 22 Mar 2013 at 16:18

If it's orange then it's connected at 1000 Mbps (green = 100 Mbps, off = 10 Mbps). See page 20 of the manual.