[clug-talk] Flashing green lights seen at night on my router

[Gustin Johnson]

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Ralph Boland wrote:
>  I am running Ubuntu 9.04.
>  I have Internet service with Shaw and a wireless router
>  (Linksyswrt54gv6)  that I am directly connected to.
>  A roomate is connected to the router wirelessly.  He uses windows.  :-(
>  Recently someone moved into the downstairs apartment
>  and is now also connected wirelessly to the router.  She uses a Mac.
> 
> 2 issues:
> 
> 1) The Internet light on the router is always flashing.
>     Shouldn't it only be flashing when there is Internet traffic?
>     Is there any setting of the router that I can do to fix this
>     assuming it is a problem?
> 
This is normal (for cable) and there is nothing you can do about it. I
just ignore that light since it does not tell me anything useful about
my connection (unless it is dark, then I usually have to call Shaw).
There is also nothing inherently bad in this either.

> 2) Since the Mac was connected the wireless light is always flashing.
>     Before it only flashed when the windows user was using the wireless.
>     What do I do so that the wireless list flashes only when there
>     is Internet traffic?
>     I suppose this is really a Mac question but I wouldn't know how
>     to fix this problem if she was using Linux either (if it would be
>     a problem on Linux that is).

Disable bonjour, on some non-mac platforms it is sometimes called
zeroconf, you may also have some individual pieces called multicast-DNS
(mDNS) as well as other "serverless" communication packages.
Fortunately you do not have to worry about it most of the time.

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