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Help with new router wired connections
I just set up my new router - WAX204 - WiFi 6 AX1800. It replaced an older different brand one. It was super easy. WiFi connections are great but having trouble with wired connections. My Home N...
Thank you to everyone for their responses and suggestions and feedback.
My problem is solved, and it was a simple (duh) solution. Apparently when my cable provider & ISP provider was out recently for a different issue (TV problem) he must have inadvertently tugged on a group of network cable plugged into my switch box. I found an old laptop and plugged it into a wall network connection and was surprised it said network cable unplugged. So, on a whim I tried pushing in on the network cable switch box connections that were dark, and guess what? Several of them seemed not quite in all the way and they lit up with green blinking lights! I had looked at the switch box before, but all the connections looked connected and for some reason I didn't check to make sure they were all tight and securely connected.
Thanks again everyone!!
Jeff
Jeff,
With all Ethernet links (check switch and device LEDs) up, I would expect a device like your Fire box would recognize the presence of a wired network, not hiding the wired network controls.
It's odd that only one device connected to the WAX204 should be workable - unless there is an unexpected limitation on the LAN ports of this AP.
Can you temporary bypass the switch and connect the Fire direct to a router LAN port, and look if it does detect the wired connection again?
michaelkenward Nobody diagreed with you, had just added some comments related to your thoughts. As there's is obviously some more more or less smart MAC processing implemented eg. for allowing/denying the interaction of the LAN ports with the three SSIDs, and te Internet than on what we would expect on a consumer router even with the Business tag applied.... Afraid, lack of any test device available, I must Skip this here....
Thank you to everyone for their responses and suggestions and feedback.
My problem is solved, and it was a simple (duh) solution. Apparently when my cable provider & ISP provider was out recently for a different issue (TV problem) he must have inadvertently tugged on a group of network cable plugged into my switch box. I found an old laptop and plugged it into a wall network connection and was surprised it said network cable unplugged. So, on a whim I tried pushing in on the network cable switch box connections that were dark, and guess what? Several of them seemed not quite in all the way and they lit up with green blinking lights! I had looked at the switch box before, but all the connections looked connected and for some reason I didn't check to make sure they were all tight and securely connected.
Thanks again everyone!!
Jeff
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