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RBRK50 and wired home network
In new house, cat6 ethernet patch panel (unlabled) is wired to several (unlabled) ethernet ports throughout home. I set up a Spectrum Internet modem (non-wifi model), added Orbi router and satellite...
SRM-55 wrote:
I can't get an wired ethenet connection on my laptop in any wired ethernet port in the house. I get the "no internet connection" page on my browser.
I once had to trace unlabeled wall jacks back to the patch panel in an office. What a pain!
Could you please take a look at the Ethernet jack in your laptop? Most of the Ethernet jacks I have used have two tiny LED's. One glows green when it detects an Ethernet connection and the other flickers with transmission. When you hook the laptop directly to an Orbi LAN port, do you see any LED's on the laptop Ethernet jack? If so, you can have some confidence that when you go around the house checking wall jacks that you can find the jack that is connected to the jack on the patch panel that you connected the Orbi LAN port to. If the LED's worked when wired directly, but you never find a wall jack where the LED's come on, that would be a puzzle.
I'm connected to Apple laptop via thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter (which seems to work fine) but it doesn't light up. Will continure to work on this next week....at least the wifi works....
Ya, once you get the in wall LAN cables identified and marked, you should be good. Hopefully they all work and won't have to fix anything.
Get a switch set up too. Something non managed and doesn't have Green Ethernet support. These don't work well with Orbi.
SRM-55 wrote:
I'm connected to Apple laptop via thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter (which seems to work fine) but it doesn't light up. Will continure to work on this next week....at least the wifi works....
