How to Wire Home Networking Through a Switch??

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So I wired our new house with Cat6.. checked all connections and everything worked. Now I'm at the stage of actually installing the switch but I cant get anything to work through the switch. I ordered NETGEAR 24-Port Gigabit Ethernet Unmanaged Switch, Desktop/Rackmount (GS324) and have the Mediacom modem/router accepting the coaxial from outside and cat6 going from it to the switch and the light is green on that port. When I connect the switch to another piece of equipment (receiver, computer, etc) it's solid orange and doesn't have any connection... what am I doing wrong?
 
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I looked at the specs (see http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/GS324/GS324_IG_EN.pdf?_ga=2.111906439.2004148155.1529799991-515230995.1529799991), and this is a fairly ordinary setup.

What you call the other equipment light as solid orange, is that the "10/100" indicator from that URL ("step 3")? If so, then this is not a failure, but it is only 100Mbit/s on that. Is the other equipment truly not capable of gigabit? If that other equipment really is 100Mbit/s and not gigabit, then it may be working as expected.

If your modem/router has an IP address, then from your host you could "ping" that address to see if it works. Now that it is wired you might also attempt to just restart the modem so it sees the switch MAC right at startup when all of its tables/cache are clear.
 
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Ok I reset everything.. with the computer plugged into the switch it works fine on the computer.. the Yamaha receiver (RX-V677) still doesn't work though. Says no connection. Additionally, we have 300mps and pull close to that straight from the modem to our computers. Any reason I'd only be getting a max of 100mbs through the switch now? -

Nevermind.. did a speed test and still pulling 200+
 
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If you see the orange light it implies the wired connection at one end is only capable of 100Mbit/s. Otherwise it can run at gigabit. On the other hand there is overhead. No gigabit will actually put through gigabit. No 100Mbit will put through 100Mbit.
 
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