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Help with network connection problem needed
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Neil_Jones wrote: »
I think we are looking more so at a faulty switch but the lights on the switch should say what its doing.
Or we could be looking at a cable run close to or over 100m, possibly made with cable of dubious quality, and the network hardware in the laptop coping better with this limit case than the network hardware in the switch.Proud member of the wokerati, though I don't eat tofu.Home is where my books are.Solar PV 5.2kWp system, SE facing, >1% shading, installed March 2019.Mortgage free July 20230 -
when they ran the cable, did they also run an electric cable with it, or is there an existing electric cable running with it? Overhead pylons?
this is how it should look, from https://www.howtogeek.com/99001/htg-explains-routers-and-switches/0
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