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Retired_Member
Mar 18, 2021
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Unable to access Internet from gs105 unmanaged switch

Basically the title. Purchased the switch with the intention of using it to have access to more internet-capable ports in my room, so that I wouldn't have to contantly swap the cable from device to device.

Outside of the switch; I cobbled together a photo of my houses topology in case that matters: https://imgur.com/a/D9wIIns

There are other devices in the house, but they all run off of wifi.

 

Plugged it in, set it up, and no matter what I've tried, my PC (which I am using as my Control among other things) is unable to resolve an IP.  It keeps informing me that the "Ethernet" connection is unable to resolve an IP, or similar.

 

  • Cables are all fine
    • All of them are new.
  • Switch is new, only a day old at this point
  • my PCs NIC is fine as well
  • my PC can access the internet just fine on its own.
    • It is only when I attempt to access the internet on my PC through the Switch, that it is suddenly unable to resolve an IP
  • Router is DHCP enabled, and nothing is statically assigned.

I am not sure what mistake I made, if any. I am also not sure what all else I need to try.

What have I done wrong here?

  • @rapidlypen,

     

    Welcome to our community! Smiley Happy

     

    It seems that you are having issues with adding the switch to your network. May I know if you already tried using your PC to directly connect it to the patch panel? Does it receive an IP address? This switch is just a plug-and-play unit. We can only isolate cases for us to identify the problem.

     

    Regards,

     

    John

    NETGEAR Community Team

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    JohnC_V
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    @rapidlypen,

     

    Welcome to our community! Smiley Happy

     

    It seems that you are having issues with adding the switch to your network. May I know if you already tried using your PC to directly connect it to the patch panel? Does it receive an IP address? This switch is just a plug-and-play unit. We can only isolate cases for us to identify the problem.

     

    Regards,

     

    John

    NETGEAR Community Team

    • Retired_Member's avatar
      Retired_Member

      Yeah, I ended up finding out that the issue was the wall sockets.

       

      I wanted to get to get as many threads out as possible so as to produce a bunch of different things to attempt. My apologies, this issue is resolved.

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