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 ·WestNet Broadband
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Re: Router port led never goes out I think with what you have outlined is a lack of understanding of what possibly you need to do to protect yourself and are clutching at straws to try and fix the issue.
To really help, we would need:
1. Has the admin password on the router been changed?
2. Do you use strong passwords for sites as well as the router and your ISP?
3. List your security measures for the system you use.
4. Is all third party software updated and especially those of the browser plug-in type?
5. Do you use java?
6. Is UPNP turned off in the router - there are a couple of points here outside of upnp?
7. Is Windows services all still set to default?
8. What browser do you use?
9. What software is installed?
10. Do you use a torrent/wares sites or products?
These are a few simple questions and without answers to at least these few, no one will really be able to seriously advise on how to help yourself and anyone that says differently will be fooling you and themselves.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke
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 therube
join:2004-11-11
Randallstown, MD | reply to azbeel
Wake-on-LAN behavior in Windows 8
Note: differences between OS's.
Explore your BIOS.
Might find some setting or combination that might get you what you want.
Might have a "Deep Sleep" mode (S5/S6) that should affect USB ports?
A "PCI Devices Power On" setting might affect your NIC? Set it to Disabled & see if that does anything? |
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davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
kudos:7 | reply to azbeel
said by azbeel :Anyone have any suggestions? Do nothing. That's how it is supposed to work.
The constant motherboard power is surely unrelated to any credit card fraud problems you have. |
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 nwrickertsand groperPremium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL
kudos:7
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to azbeel
said by azbeel :Anyone have any suggestions?
After you have completely shut down your computer, pull the power plug for that computer. Then the LED will go off.
You just have to shut it down a little more than "completely".
What you describe has been standard for several years.
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AT&T Uverse; Buffalo WHR-300HP router (behind the 2wire gateway); openSuSE 12.3; firefox 20.0 |
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Reviews:
·WestNet Broadband
| reply to mackey
said by mackey:said by Mele20:With a desktop, if you shut it down, and you have set it up correctly, it SHUTS DOWN. NO CRAP regarding wake on LAN junk. Wrong, at least in this context. Even when the desktop computer is shut down, parts of the motherboard (including any onboard network cards) still get power. Funny you should say that...it reminds me of an old MSI 478 socket motherboard that had a faulty onboard ethernet port. If I left the power on to the modem/router and then allow the LAN chipset power via the ethernet cable, the computer would not boot. Once the power was taken away from the ethernet cable during the desktop's power-off time it booted every time. I didn't find that out straight away either. Took some trouble-shooting and I think it was luck when I did realise. 
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke
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 NetFixerFrom my cold dead handsPremium
join:2004-06-24
The Boro
 ·Comcast Business..
 ·Vonage
 ·Cingular Wireless
·Comcast
| reply to azbeel
As others have already pointed out, the Ethernet link light remaining on when the computer is powered off is normal for most new computer hardware due the presence of a standby power source in the power supply.
The unknown network devices are possibly the result of a VPN connection that is connecting to another network or computer over your Internet connection. Are you using any kind of remote access software such as LogMein? Or perhaps a VPN or proxy connection for hiding from the RIAA or MPAA? Some game software connections will also do this without warning the user that this is actually what is happening. Also some network analysis and monitoring software will cause devices on your WAN to look as if they are network connections, when all they are in reality is just devices on your ISP's connection responding to queries that the network software is making. If none of that applies to you, then it is possibly time for a Nuke and Rebuild for the computer in question, because you could easily have a rootkit installed on it.
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NetFixerFrom my cold dead handsPremium
join:2004-06-24
The Boro Reviews:
·Comcast Business..
·Vonage
·Cingular Wireless
·Comcast
| reply to sivran
said by sivran:This is normal for most modern hardware. The light stays on because the network card is still drawing power and maintaining link even when the computer is off, usually for Wake-on-LAN purposes. Nothing to worry about. Some router/switches have multiple LEDs for a port, and on these, the color or number of the lights will change when the computer's off. Again, normal behavior.
The sharing might be this thing:
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The built-in USB port with SharePort lets users share a USB printer or storage device.
From: » www.dlink.com/us/en/home-solutio···t-router Nope. The D-Link SharePort is not a network connection, and it is not "sharing" in the networking sense of the word. It is "serial" sharing wherein one device at a time can take control of an attached USB device; the attached USB device(s) are not available simultaneously to multiple network connected computers. Whether the USB device be a printer, a USB disk drive, a scanner, a camera, whatever; only one computer at a time has access to it.
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When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. |
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Here's an article on WOL.
»www.howtogeek.com/70374/how-to-g···able-it/
In my Win7 computer, there is a setting in the BIOS to enable it. Also, on the network card, there is a WOL magic packet setting under advanced options.
Right now, I have the option disabled in the BIOS. I haven't been paying attention, but I think the lights go out when I put the computer in sleep mode. |
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| reply to Mele20
said by Mele20:With a desktop, if you shut it down, and you have set it up correctly, it SHUTS DOWN. NO CRAP regarding wake on LAN junk. Wrong, at least in this context. Even when the desktop computer is shut down, parts of the motherboard (including any onboard network cards) still get power. If you look at the pinout of the ATX power cable going to the motherboard, you'll see pin 9 is labelled "+5v SB" for 5v StandBy - this wire always has power on it even when the computer is "off." The only way to kill all power is to unplug the power cable or use the hard switch on the back of the power supply if the power supply even has one.
The only way for the OP to make that LED go out is to unplug the computer completely.
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davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
kudos:7 | reply to Mele20
Regardless of all that, the Ethernet interface has trickle power unless you unplug it from the wall. Disabling wake-on-lan tells the processor on the NIC not to react to magic packets; it does not change whether the NIC gets power nor whether the NIC maintains link presence. |
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 sivranOpera convertPremium
join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
kudos:1
·RoadRunner Cable
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No. Desktops too. Come to think of it, my old laptop actually powered off the NIC when shut down, while at least two of my desktops don't.
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | reply to sivran
You are talking about LAPTOPS right? With a desktop, if you shut it down, and you have set it up correctly, it SHUTS DOWN. NO CRAP regarding wake on LAN junk. Desktops do NOT go into semi-hibernation unless you want that horrible "feature" which is intended for laptops.
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sivranOpera convertPremium
join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
kudos:1 Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to azbeel
This is normal for most modern hardware. The light stays on because the network card is still drawing power and maintaining link even when the computer is off, usually for Wake-on-LAN purposes. Nothing to worry about. Some router/switches have multiple LEDs for a port, and on these, the color or number of the lights will change when the computer's off. Again, normal behavior.
The sharing might be this thing:
quote:
The built-in USB port with SharePort lets users share a USB printer or storage device.
From: »www.dlink.com/us/en/home-solutio···t-router
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| My router, a D-Link 655, has four led indicators for the four lines I am running. The light for my main computer never goes out unless the cat5 connector is physically removed, even if the computer is completely shut down. This is the second computer to have this issue on the main computer that connects to the cable modem. Other computer shuts down and light goes out normally. Switching ports on the router does not change the problem. Both computers running Windows 7. I have had credit card fraud on two different cards that were used online making this issue important for me to resolve. I am running Zone Alarm Pro firewall. All software is current and upto date.
I have also had some "unknown" networks appear in the network and filing sharing window between the router and the modem?? Uninstalling the network adapter and reinstalling it will usually remove the issue. Network sharing is off.
Anyone have any suggestions? While I am a long term user, I am by no means a "geek"
Thanks for your assistance |
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