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Retired_Member
Mar 18, 2021Unable 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!

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_VNETGEAR Employee Retired
@rapidlypen,
Welcome to our community!

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
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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