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Connecting to GS728TPv2 home network with CAX80 and EAX80?
I just setup the GS728TPv2 in my basement. It's on the opposite side of where my Netgear CAX80 cable modem/WiFi-6 router is located so I ran a cat8 cable to it. I have smart phones and tablets throug...
Something very basic must be wrong between the GS switch and the CAX router. Either a basic Ethernet link issue, poor wiring, poor cabling, or ports configured to another purpose.
What happens when connecting the Mac USB-Ethernet port to the port/cable/link intended for the switch connection - locally on the CAX, remote near to the switch?
I think I inserted the wrong terminal code for pinging the switch.
Please see inserted images which are screenshots from my Macbook Air (MBA) connected via ethernet cable to the switch. The first screenshot is of sending a ping to the switch's IP address when the ethernet cable is hooked up and when the WiFi adaptor is turned on - in which case the WiFi normally takes precedence. Ping-to-switch_with_WiFi_on
As expected, the ping does not work when the MBA is connected to the switch via ethernet cable with the WiFi turned off, and with the LAN port IP is set to DHCP. (self-assigned IP address is 169.254.222.54) MBA ping to switch fails with this MBA network/IP configuration
Setting the IP configuration on the MBA from DHCP to "Manually" - I chose "192.168.1.251" , results in the MBA be able to ping the switch (MBA is directly connected to switch via ethernet cable). MBA ping to switch successful when manually setting the MBA's IP address to a value in the 192.168.1.xxx range
My question now is how do I get my internet signal to pass through the switch and to computers connected to the switch? – What should the configuration be for the routing tab in the GS728TPv2 GUI?
Also, how should I configure the switch settings so that I can access it's GUI from my laptop connected via WiFi to my CAX80 or EAX80? If that makes sense.
Thank you.
Something very basic must be wrong between the GS switch and the CAX router. Either a basic Ethernet link issue, poor wiring, poor cabling, or ports configured to another purpose.
What happens when connecting the Mac USB-Ethernet port to the port/cable/link intended for the switch connection - locally on the CAX, remote near to the switch?
I don't believe the port on the CAX80 (that connects to the switch via a CAT8 cable) is the issue. Reason being is because right now I am on my Macbook Pro which is wirelessly connected to the EAX80 (with my network devices setup as illustrated in my initial post), and I ran an app called LanScan. Upon starting the scan, all the devices on the network populate on the list almost immediately except the switch. But - after about 1 minute the IP address and correct MAC address for the switch populate on the list as well.
In other words, the LanScan app running on my MBP is able to pickup the switch, although with a delay, in which my MBP is wirelessly connected to my wifi-extender --> extender wirelessly connected to CAX80 --> CAX80 connected via cat8 cable to switch.
So why is it that the user interface for the CAX80 does not have the switch listed as a connected device? This makes me think I don't have the routing settings correctly configured in the switch's GUI?
And check this out, I went into the terminal on my MBP, still connected via WiFi, and pinged 192.168.1.189, and the switch pinged back 64 bytes and then the request timed out for 73 pings, then 64 bytes for pings 74-76, then timed out for pings 77-156...
Around ping 157 I typed 192.168.1.189 into my webbrowser on my MBP, and the pings were successful for a bit longer - I then had to allow my browser to trust the address...request timed out from pings 170 - 226...after trusting the Netgear certificate I refreshed the webbrowser around ping 258 and then the pings are successful off and on. The login screen for the switch user interface never populated in the webbrowser.
I terminated the terminal request after ping 405. Please see the attached pdf file.
Well, if you want to troubleshoot the connection between the router and the switch ... for me the last thing I want to see in a test set-up is any fancy repoeaer or extender. Up to you - your set-up, not mine.
Disable routing on the switch - assume there is one single flat network only.
Nothing wrong with the typical self-signed certificate for https.
Okay, so going back to what you said about the possiblity of poor wiring, take a look at this photo of the back of the CAX80. I made a straightforward mistake.
Note that the black cat8 cable running from the CAX80 to the switch is 100 ft long. The blue cat5e cable running from the CAX80 to the Mac mini is only a couple feet long, and the Mac Mini does not support multi-gig ethernet...so I switched out the cables, putting the black cat8 cable in the multi-gig port and the cat5e for the Mac Mini in port 3.
And voila! I can now seemlessly without delay log in to the GS728TPv2 GUI from my browser on my MBP and on my ipad. The GS728TPv2 also now shows up on the CAX80's list of connected devices! And there are no request time outs when I ping the switch!
Now I just need to test if my laptop can receive internet when connected to the ethernet jack on the first floor of my house.
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