RS300 Wifi 7 router

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kacall wrote:

Well the Modem supplied for "FREE" from cable company comes Plug and Pray out of the box.  Nothing to setup. Don't even have access to it.

 

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Sadly, that tells us nothing about what it is and what features it offers.

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Dell Desktop PC running Windows 10

What happens when you plug that into the switch and try to connect to the network? Forget about command-line stuff, does Windows networking troubleshooter show anything.

As I said before, Windows can be picky. Windows likes to protect us from new networks that might be evil. In  reality, it often shuts us out of safe networks.

One thought is that you could tell Windows that you are on a "private network".

• Network and Internet settings
• Network Status
• Change Connection Properties
• Network Profile
• Private

If all of the devices on the network work happily when you leave the switches out of the equation and with direct wired connections to the router, the suspicion has to fall on the switches and something about their wiring.

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I opened a Command Prompt on my PC and ran a dos command ipconfig/ all and it returns the IP address, subnet mask and gateway.

 

Is that through the switches or direct to the router?

The router really doesn't have much to do with traffic management.

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I am also a retired Network Administrator for 30 years.  So not new to this stuff.

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What does that tell you about the behaviour you see?

Just another user with time on their hands.