Controlling Device on LAN

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thank you additude - this has helped me a bit by suggesting when the nighthawk should be conneted. 

 

My setup is?:

FIBER WAN-->NBN fibre gateway (device mode is number G240-g it looks like a modem)-->8 Port TP Switch-->(Hardwired output to 3 seperate locations 1.2.3)-->1. Nighthawk Router D7000V2 AC1900, 2. Fetch Box M616T (disconnected from ethernet outlet), 3. No device

 

Everything worked perfectly for me except in this set up

 

1. I'm getting an amber led light on port 4/lan/wan internet. That the one connected via hardwired ethernet to the TP switch. It was never amber before - it has been white for months.

2. When I plug the Fetch box into ethernet outlet 2 - the nighthawk looses its incoming internet connection. What i mean is that the led for port 4 is off and the led for the internet (that the one shaped like a globe) is off. I want to connect Fetch via ethernet to avoid so many devices on my home wifi network.

3. Bosch Home alarm app cannot connect to the the alarm system when I'm out and above - meaning if the alarm goes off I dont get notified - (which is connected to ethernet to port on switch) 

 

 

I think if this is your setup then this a big problem... Yes I agree but it was (acceptable to me) until I put Nighthawk into outlet 1. I think the reality is it was never working properly but acceptable to me. 

 

It should be more like:

FIBER WAN-->NBN fibre gateway (connection box g204-g )-->Nighthawk Router d7000v2-->8 Port TP Switch-->To 3 seperate rooms...

 

Ok I can see why the above set up might work better. It also explains why the nighthawk loses connection when I connect other  devices into ethernet outlets, the TP switch might be causing the issue.  

 

Will my switch slow my wired ethernet outlets down? The swithc is a 10/100?

 

I get 47mps on home wifi at the moment and a touch more from ethernet outlet 3. 

 

Of course all depending on what ever NBN fibre gateway (device) is and how it is setup? 

It was installed as part of a newbuild. NBN docs I found online refer to it as a connection box and it has model g240-g on the front. Port marked uni-d1 is connected to TP switch.  The power and optical lights are green as well as uni-d1 led light. that all i can see. Looks like a modem

Depending on how you have a "Cable Modem/Router" configured?

I never made any changes to config out of the box. But since then, in an attempt to resolve issues with alarm, fetch box and solar invertor, I have updated the firmware. Reset it multiple times, turned it on/off and cursed at it relentlessly. 

 

When trying to resolve the led amber light issue described above, I checked the ports on nighthawk by connecting ethernet from port 4 on nighthawk into port 1 on nighthwk and got two white leds on the nighthawk. I concluded that TP switch was limiting speed to 100mps. Then I tried to find out if I could change the port 4 speed to 1gigabit via the nighthawk webbrowser config control and concluded that it is set to auto-negotiation and cannot be changed on nghthawk from browser. I also checked the spec of the switch which is 10/100 which suggests it not capable of 1 giga which is strange as it was getting a solid led on nighthwk in the past. 

 

This has taken up my whole weekend. I'm at the stage where I think I should pay somebody to come and fix it. 

 

 

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