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digitaldanuk
(newbie) Sun 07-Jun-20 16:44:52

Strange LED behaviour with TP-LINK 8980 N600 Router

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Hi all,

Trying to get to the bottom of why this router is behaving in this way. It's not allowing me to connect to it with the web interface either. Tried hard reset, tried 30-30-30 reset, and still no luck. No cables in the ports except the power cable. It does this from being switched on and continues forever.

Here is a video of the behaviour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br5NAQ_qSUA

Is it a brick?

Many thanks

Daniel

RobertoS
(elder) Mon 08-Jun-20 00:39:58

Re: Strange LED behaviour with TP-LINK 8980 N600 Router

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It probably needs a physical connection to a phone line that has ADSL2+ supply on it.

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woodmass14
(committed) Mon 08-Jun-20 01:59:34

Re: Strange LED behaviour with TP-LINK 8980 N600 Router

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I have the exact same model that was in storage. Just pulled it out and tested it. The same 3 lights turn on at startup then all turn solid green. After a second the only lights that show are both wifi and power (because nothing else is connected to router. Ethernet, internet connection etc)

It looks like that router is on a reboot loop of some sort. Probably hardware related if its as old as my n600 is smile

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