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Fish_Hard_51

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I currently have a Netgear Orbi w/ Satellite hooked up to a TP Link 8 Port Gigabit switch which is hooked up to a D-Link powerline unit. With this setup all devices connect and work fine. D-Link is a little slow and many times needs to be re-set which is why I'm trying this other route. When the house was built there was cat-5 wire installed that terminates in the basement from just about all rooms. I installed a TP-Link 24port Gigabit switch in the basement and hooked up all the cat 5 wires that terminate down there. I unplugged the powerline and took the cable that ran from the powerline and plugged them into the network jacks. Basically I have a Cable-Modem -> Orbi -> TPlInk 8 -> Network Jack -> Basement -> Tplink 24 that theoretically goes out to all rooms...

The devices hooked up to the network jacks are not seen on the network however and I'm not not sure how to troubleshoot next. I have blinking lights on the TPLink in the basement so some signal is getting down there...

Any thoughts?
 
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jsmithepa
Your title specifically mentions WIFI and yet there is nothing in your post about it.

Anywhoo, hooking up ethernet is about the most fool-proof thing you can do, there is almost nothing that make it fail, EXCEPT some people, not sure where they get it from, make a LOOP. I don't know what street-Joe language to use to explain an ethernet loop. Technically, somehow you have hook things up in such a way you have provided more than 1 path to a destination. Ethernet cannot have more than 1 path, it gets confused, it crashes.

I suggest, disconnect everything. Hook one thing up at a time, starting at the modem, and at every step, verify you still have connection to the Internet. When it fails, the last step is what made it.
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Your title specifically mentions WIFI and yet there is nothing in your post about it.

Anywhoo, hooking up ethernet is about the most fool-proof thing you can do, there is almost nothing that make it fail, EXCEPT some people, not sure where they get it from, make a LOOP. I don't know what street-Joe language to use to explain an ethernet loop. Technically, somehow you have hook things up in such a way you have provided more than 1 path to a destination. Ethernet cannot have more than 1 path, it gets confused, it crashes.

I suggest, disconnect everything. Hook one thing up at a time, starting at the modem, and at every step, verify you still have connection to the Internet. When it fails, the last step is what made it.
 
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