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Ah hah, I just saw it in person! Both my wired computers lost connection for a couple seconds again a few minutes ago at about 9:51 AM PST. I could not find anything about in the router's log since incoming is empty (a known issue?) and outgoing shows what I connected (my two computers and www, ntp, ircd, and www which are correct; usually shows way more!). It seems like my router rebooted? I am going to try manually power cycle. If that fails, then reset to default factory and redo my configurations from scratch.

Keep us informed of your progress.

I am not sure if this was the same before, but my physical router's Cisco Systems logo is orange color instead of white. I can't really remember if it was white. My brain thinks it was white before. However, I read that this is for EasySetup which I never used and pretty sure I disabled.

The Cisco logo is the Router’s SecureEasySetup button. It lights up and will stay orange when the Router is powered on. The color orange indicates that the Router is not using the SecureEasySetup feature, while the color white indicates that the Router is using the SecureEasySetup feature

The Cisco logo is the Router’s SecureEasySetup button. It lights up and will stay orange when the Router is powered on. The color orange indicates that the Router is not using the SecureEasySetup feature, while the color white indicates that the Router is using the SecureEasySetup feature

within the stock firmware and without modification to the board?

Don't think I've ever seen any options regarding that light except for the white and amber for the SecureEasySetup function. Would be cool for it to do other things, but I can't think of anything except for perhaps a notification if its overheating or overwhelmed?

very nice. I wonder if the same can be done to the E4200 white LED on the top.

So far so good after a day, but previous quick disconnects weren't daily. Just almost. We'll see how goes tomorrow and on.

It's white if you use their easy setup button, it’s been awhile but when you press the Cisco logo it starts the process and the LED flashes white while other easy-setup devices are allowed to connect. After its done flashing it should stay solid white.

If you are not using that feature it will be orange, and it is possible to not be lit up at all if you turn the radio off.

Since you reloaded from backup it probably treats the saved settings as if you manually entered them, which would explain the orange illumination of the logo.