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The LAN light is blinking rapidly on my Fibre ONT

  • 18-02-2025 09:56PM
    #1
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,101 ✭✭✭✭


    I have noticed the green LAN light on my Huawei ONT blinking before but not this rapidly and in a regular blink like that I'm pretty sure before it blinked but not as fast like this.

    I checked all stuff on the network in the house to make sure they were not downloading anything or playing youtube videos or anything like that and they wasn't .

    any ideas does it look normal - it looks like something is using a lot of data, I cannot think what.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/su3NyuMDAb0


    https://youtube.com/shorts/su3NyuMDAb0

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  • #2
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,535 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    That video is private, so we can't see it.

    But a human not doing something doesn't mean their devices aren't doing a multitude of automated things, updates to OS, programs etc.

    Does your router not have stats/graphs or other monitoring facility to see what ports and MAC addresses are involved?



  • #3
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,101 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    yes I dont know what happened there - I have set video to public and still cannot get it to show on here



  • #4
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,538 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    The LED is not an indication of how much data is being used (video is public now) - no matter what you think is not downloading data it very likely is making some kind of connection somewhere



  • #5
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,535 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123185909#Comment_123185909

    It's working now. But as Fritzelly said, it's just a general indicator of activity, and nothing beyond that. It doesn't mean anything nefarious, or even any particular level of usage.



  • #6
    Andy From Sligo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,101 ✭✭✭✭Andy From Sligo


    ah right thanks all - its just that I havent seen it flash as fast as this before and as stable as this , its normally flashed slower and not uniformed - not done anything different with the devices running off the router or doing any more intensive stuff. - unless its always blinked like this and I am only just noticing it now.
    I will have to try it again tomorrow with every device disabled in the network of the router , or disable 1 at a time see if I can see any difference in the speed of the flash



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  • #7
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,439 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    It's when you don't see blinking lights that you start worrying…

    Not your ornery onager



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