Ethernet Port Lights

[AndrewTC]

Hi

Can someone explain what the lights flashing on the ethernet ports indicate? I have 2 ports in use. One flashes green on both indicator lights and the other port flashes green on one side and orange on the other? I would think they should both be the same?

Cheers

[mae-3]

@AndrewTC 

Green flashing means the port is operational at 1Gbps and amber flashing means operational at 100Mbps.

[TimmyBGood]

@mae-3 

And so the limiting factor is the capability of the ethernet chipset in the client device.  Typically it's older hardware which has 100Mbs ethernet, but some new devices do too (including Sky Glass/Stream) because they don't need anything faster.

[mae-3]

@TimmyBGood & @AndrewTC 

That is certainly true that the limiting factor is usually a cheap ethernet chipset only supporting 100Mbps.

But don't agree that Sky Glass/Stream would only use less than 100Mbps and cannot use the extra for 1Gbps port as bursting streams will go higher than 100Mbps for UHD feeds for short periods, especially at the start of a video feed.

And content synopsis screens need as high a bandwidth as possible to download all the information for the shortest load periods possible and provide a nice user experience as is the case with Apple TV boxes that have a 1Gbps port!

[TimmyBGood]

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@mae-3 wrote:

@TimmyBGood & @AndrewTC 

But don't agree that Sky Glass/Stream would only use less than 100Mbps and cannot use the extra for 1Gbps port as bursting streams will go higher than 100Mbps for UHD feeds for short periods, especially at the start of a video feed.

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Presumably Glass/Stream doesn't, because it can't ; )

The new revision of the Sky Broadband Booster is missing ethernet entirely because Sky apparently can't even source 100Mbs chipsets at a reasonable price.

[mae-3]

@TimmyBGood 

That is certainly true that Sky Glass/Stream has that issue with outdated technology, and I'm not surprised that Sky can't source 100Mbps ethernet chipsets it's outdated technology. 😉