yellow status light

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yellow status light

I recently installed an airport extreme downstream from my DSL modem via ethernet cable.

I remember the status light being green on initial setup.

Today (a week later) I notice it is flashing yellow, however our iMac and MacAir are still connected to the internet no problem.

Is there a correction I should make to remedy something. If i leave it like this does it mean it is not optimized in any way?

Is there something diagnostic which will correct a problem(if any?)

thanks

Airport Extreme-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Jan 11, 2014 6:16 PM

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Answer 1

Tesserax

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Jan 11, 2014 7:54 PM in response to BloodyViking

A persistent, flashing amber light indicates that any of the several potential conditions may require your attention:

The base station has not yet been configured because it is new, or the reset switch has been set.
You have selected a security configuration that is not recommended.
One of several other conditions, such as a disconnected Ethernet cable or invalid IP address has been detected.

(ref: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305101)

If you run the AirPort Utility, it will show an amber circle on the summary page next to the area(s) causing the problem. Click on this amber circle and it should provide an explanation.

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Answer 2

BloodyViking Author

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Jan 11, 2014 10:14 PM in response to Tesserax

thanks

It turns out it was asking me to update the Firmware. DId that and then for some reason had to help it find my network name again, but now is green and OK... Will now know where to go for the yellow LED.

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