LAN port on WIFI extdender constantly blinks.

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A week ago i setup a secondary router as a WIFI extender and is in extender/AP mode not router mode.

Everything is fine but i noticed the LAN port wont stop blinking, Ive turned off the WI-FI to see if it will stop or slow down but it doesn't.

Are these harmless ICMP/heartbeat packets or could there be something i can do about it?

Main router is 192.168.0.1 and the AP is 192.168.0.100

Here are some stats for port 1 of the AP

761602

The AP isnt really doing much now, ive reset the AP a few hours ago so those Traffic numbers shouldnt be high.

The Wi-Fi hasnt been hacked.
 
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Please change IP of AP to 192.168.0.2, change DHCP scope on router to 100-199, and disable DHCP on AP.

Or is that a typo?
 
gfmalan said:
Please change IP of AP to 192.168.0.2, change DHCP scope on router to 100-199, and disable DHCP on AP.

Or is that a typo?
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Whats wrong with 0.100 for the AP? DHCP is disabled on the AP. Any reason you would have clients on 100 to 199?
 
Ethernet lights blink...all of them in the history of the world so I’m not understanding the concern?

It simply shows there is activity and the link is alive.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Ethernet lights blink...all of them in the history of the world so I’m not understanding the concern?

It simply shows there is activity and the link is alive.
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Yes they blink if there is activity and solid if its alive but it shouldnt keep flashing indefinitely.
 
Rickster said:
Yes they blink if there is activity and solid if its alive but it shouldnt keep flashing indefinitely.
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I’ve seen many different behaviours.

Some just blink statically others dynamically with traffic.

Actually very rarely seen them stay solid.
 
Stop looking at it perhaps?

EDIT: I recall that both lights on the on board Ethernet in my pc are always on even thought I disable that card in the BIOS.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I’ve seen many different behaviours.

Some just blink statically others dynamically with traffic.

Actually very rarely seen them stay solid.
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This one blinks because of traiffic which is why im concerned. These phantom packets could cause issues in realtime traffic.
 
Rickster said:
This one blinks because of traiffic which is why im concerned. These phantom packets could cause issues in realtime traffic.
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You worry too much.

Your home network is never going to be affected by a little bit of trifle traffic.

It certainly won’t be phantom traffic.
 
Found the issue, was outside brute force to my pc via RDP. When I blocked their IPs the blinking stopped.
 
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