 sivranOpera convertPremium
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 ·RoadRunner Cable
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Re: Router port led never goes out 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
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Mele20Premium
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kudos:4 | 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
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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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davePremium,MVM
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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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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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 NetFixerFrom my cold dead handsPremium
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The Boro
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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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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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