Google Wifi Flashing Orange

It does not matter how fast your internet connection is from your ISP, if all of a sudden your ethernet slows to a snail’s pace, this can be the most frustrating situation, then you go to see what is the problem and you see your Google Wi-Fi blinking orange light.

In general, if the cable light is blinking orange, your modem is connecting to the network. If it continues to remain blinking or solid orange, the modem cannot establish a connection to the internet. However, do not worry, because today we will help you fix your problem.

Before you rush out and blame your ISP, in a lot of cases your network is the problem. So how do you know if you are the problem or how do you know if your ISP is to blame? The first thing you want to make sure of is that you have got a power line and have got an internet line.

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How To Fix Google Wifi Flashing Orange

Reboot

If you do, the next thing to do is to switch the Wi-Fi off for five minutes, why five? Because that grants this thing to power down completely and then your service provider is gonna stop reconnecting to try to get your connectivity back up, meaning you will get a nice fresh connection. Now that you have done that, your next step is to go down to your router.

Check the cable

You need to go around back and follow this cable back through to your modem, make sure that that LAN cable is nice and secure.

Factory Reset

Once you have done that your internet lock should be on, if your internet light is not on, you might want to hard reset the factory defaults of your Google Wi-Fi.

Keep in mind, If you factory reset your Google Nest Wi-Fi or Google Wi-Fi device, all current settings and data will get erased. Data that has been deleted is lost permanently. After you factory reset a device, you must re-configure your router and point.

To officially wipe and reset this device, all you have to do is unplug it which is pretty common and standard, but what you are going to need to do to put this thing into a factory reset mode is you are going to have to hold down the button and then plug it back in.

When you do that instead of getting your normal blue flash you should go white and you are going to want to sit and hold that button down for about 10-15 seconds until you start to see a blue flash. After that, it will turn off and turn back on and keep flashing, and then you are waiting for it to go to a solid blue. If you keep your eye on the modem, you should be able to see it go solid blue. After that, it is normally set up, but it is ready to be set up or paired to your network.

Now, if you give it some time, like about 10 minutes, you should be able to add it to your home network without any issues.

Another way to factory reset your Wi-Fi is by the Google Wi-Fi app. All you have to do is go to the app, then set and press on factory reset. The whole process after that is the same, you still have to wait before it starts flashing blue.

Update the firmware

Another reason why your router might be flashing orange is that you have not updated the firmware in a long time, so the first thing you want to do is to launch the Google Wi-Fi app, select Settings and activities, then Network & general. After that, you need to tap the Wi-Fi point and tap the gadget to test. All you have to do is scroll down to see the software version of your device, if not you can update firmware from that.

Contact ISP

Up until this point, all we have done is to fix the problem by ourselves, without contacting the internet service providers. However, if you have done everything we advised you do, the only thing left is to contact the Google service providers.

Hopefully, our little guide helped you with your problem.

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