Owner's Manual

Hardware Setup
9
R6250 Smart WiFi Router
Front and Side Panel
The router front panel has the status LEDs and icons shown in the following figure.
LEDs
WiFi On/Off button
WPS button
Figure 2. Router front and side view
Table 1. Front panel LED descriptions
LED Description
Power
• Solid amber. The router is starting.
• Blinking amber.
The firmware is upgrading, or the Restore Factory Settings button was
pressed.
• Solid green. The
router is ready.
• Blinking green. The
firmware is corrupted. See www.netgear.com/support.
• Off. Power is not supplied to the router
.
Internet
• Solid green. The Internet connection is ready.
• Solid amber.
The Ethernet cable connection to the modem has been detected.
• Off. No Ethernet cable is connected to the modem.
Wireless
• Solid blue. The wireless radio is operating in either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz mode.
• Blinking. Someone is trying to join the WiFi network using the WPS method.
• Off.
The wireless radios are off for both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz.
USB • Solid blue. The router has accepted the USB device. The USB device is ready to be used.
• Blinking blue.
A USB device is plugged in and is trying to connect.
• Off. No USB device is connected; someone clicked the Safely Remove Hardware button, and
it is now safe to remove the attached USB device.