Gargoyle Forum

Hi. I am currently running the Motorola SB6120 cable modem via gigabit ethernet connection to the WAN port of my Netgear WNDR3700 v2. I am using a 5ft CAT6 patch cable.

However, I am seemingly not getting a gigabit or 1000mbps connection using this current setup. I am getting an orange/amber LED indicator on the router, rather than a green indicator, on the WAN port. I am under the assumption that green means gigabit or 1000mbps, while orange/amber means 10/100mbps.

Is it supposed to be orange instead of green on the WAN port if I am getting a gigabit connection? Is there a way to check what the ethernet auto-negotiation link speed is currently achieved in the Gargoyle web interface? I also have my Playstation 3 game console hooked up to the LAN port 1, and it is correctly showing a green LED. On the Playstation 3, I am 100% sure that I am achieving a gigabit ethernet link, because the Playstation 3 settings allow you to force a gigabit/1000mbps connection via its ethernet port.

Is this simply a case of the LED indicator being reversed on the WAN port as opposed to the LAN ports--meaning that orange/amber is actually gigabit on the WAN port?

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Statix,
Where you able to resolve this issue? Im having the same issue. Please let me know greatly appreciate it.

I am getting the amber light as well but my internet connection is going 115Mbit so I guess it's really connected at gigabit speed.

I have the same router. Mine is orange with Cat6 and Cat5e. It doesn't matter which one you use. Cat5e in a gigabit port can do way more than 115 mbps. Your internet will have to at least quadruple or quintuple to saturate it, good sir.

wade wrote:I have the same router. Mine is orange with Cat6 and Cat5e. It doesn't matter which one you use. Cat5e in a gigabit port can do way more than 115 mbps. Your internet will have to at least quadruple or quintuple to saturate it, good sir.

Huh? I meant I can tell the port is not operating at 100Mbit because I'm getting 115Mbit over my internet connection. Also if you plug the WAN port into a gigabit switch or another port on the router you get a green light that shows that it's operating at gigabit speed.

In 1.5.10 (maybe 1.5.9), you can see the reported speed that the underlying OS uses on the Status page. Note: when some of my machines go to sleep, the speed reported changes.

BashfulBladder wrote:In 1.5.10 (maybe 1.5.9), you can see the reported speed that the underlying OS uses on the Status page. Note: when some of my machines go to sleep, the speed reported changes.

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Cool. I have an older version and don't have that. Maybe I'll upgrade.

Sort of an old post, but I was fighting the same thing today.

I dont see anywhere in the status page that it is telling me speed of the internet port. I do see the 4 LAN ports, but not the internet port.

A quick test that I did was to plug a 3ft patch cable form LAN2 to the internet port, and then refreshed my status screen. The system reported that LAN2 was connected at 1Gbps, and the internet light was still showing amber.

I think this is just a bug in the code for the LED on the internet port.

BashfulBladder wrote:In 1.5.10 (maybe 1.5.9), you can see the reported speed that the underlying OS uses on the Status page. Note: when some of my machines go to sleep, the speed reported changes.
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I know this is an older post. I have a WNDR3700 V4 running Gargoyle 1.81 but I don't see this on the status page, or anywhere else in Gargoyle. Was this removed in later firmware? I am trying to determine lan port connection speed for a device on my network, and have no way to determine (it's not a pc). My router LED's don't seem to work for that, always are the same color (green) no matter what connection is (10/100 or Gigabit).