Cable Modem (Cisco DPC3010) LED Question

[JonUrban]

I have a Cisco DPC3010 cable modem I purchased from Charter (my cable provider) along with the internet service. (I bought it because I did not want to pay the monthly rental fee)

I used to see the following on the 5 LEDS:

Power: GREEN
DS: AMBER
US: GREEN
ONLINE: AMBER
LINK: GREEN

However, I recently dumped them for TV and went with DirecTV, leaving my basic cable and internet intact. A few days ago, I noticed that the modem now shows all LEDs green, even after a reset.

I did some Google'ing, and it seems that the amber LEDs indicate a bonded connection. My question is should they be amber or green. I'm paying about $60 a month for the internet, so I'd be ticked off if they lowered my connection speed because I dumped their over priced, poor cable TV service.

Thanks

 

[twizt3dsist3r]

I think its actually the otherway around, im pretty sure green notates docsis3. So it seems you got an upgraded connection maybe?

When you downgraded service to internet only what speed did you agree for?

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[Teehar]

Here's a decent explanation of what the lights mean.The topic is on comcast but,the same should apply for charter,as it's a cisco 3010.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r26...llow-DS-light-and-Link-light-on-cisco-DPC3010

Green ds means it's bonded.Amber,it's not bonded.You can also log into your router 192.168.100.1 check the readings.I would also advise running some speed tests to make sure your getting what you pay for.

http://www.speedtest.net/

 

[twizt3dsist3r]

Some of the people and the tech that showed up according to that thread on dsl reports are pretty clueless. The lights notate about channel bonding and whether the area is d3 enabled or not, and when the downstream on channels 2-8 read 0.0 that meant channel not available not that the signal lvl was 0. And if your link light is yellow, that means that your router/switch/component is operating at 100mbs not 1000. Green is for gigabit, motorolla uses blue for this.

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