Router Question

alphaomega16

alphaomega16

alphaomega16

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Heya guys, not really paid much attention to this before but recently ive noticed that with my computer I have a wireless router but my computer is connected by LAN connection and so is the downstairs computer but ive noticed that the WLAN light flashes along with my LAN light and not the other computer downstairs.

If I unplug my computer it does not appear to flash with the downstairs one. It also seems to flash along with the computer downstairs.

Could this be something to do with Mcafee firewall / network monitor.

I dont think its spyware or anything since I have Ad-Aware, Ad-Watch, Malwarebytes, Mfafee and noscript running on my computer and none of the actual Spyware / Virus programs are detecting anything.

Ive run a scan in normal mode, restarted in safe mode and run each scan and proceeded to return to normal mode and run another.

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I have seen pop up every now and then around this time of night "wmiprvse.exe" which is tied to nothing when I goto services.
 
NEVER base any traffic flow on lights it could mean anything. Check how much traffic each computer is sending and also use something like Wireshark to see what packets each computer sends.
 
This is when nothing is going on, no constant flashing just every 3-5s.

The light for my connection will flash then half a second after the wlan one.

Just sitting at computer with nothing downloading / uploading or transfering.
 
Still means very little. Could be anything to ARP requests, rip traffic, dhcp, dns.

I wouldnt worry about 2 lights flashing away. If your network isnt slowing down then dont read into 2 lights to much. My router lights are always flashing because I have another router upstairs exchanging rip information.
 
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Keep alives too, even when your pc is off (but with power to PSU on), your NIC will still be connected to the router and will send keep alives at the minimum. As for Wlan light, that has even more reason to flash for, what appears to be, no reason. Broadcasting the SSID etc etc.

Lights are little more than indicators that there's a physical connection/activity. Beyond that, they have no meaning/use in fault finding, volume of traffic, anything lol. Hell, you could get the lights to light up by bridging the right pins on a vacant interface with a paperclip :rolleyes:
 
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