Purchased a relatively cheap ethernet switch to use as an expansion of ethernet ports from my current router.
It gets a bit more complicated as we have internal ethernet routing in the house, which means an ethernet cable runs from router to the wall, travels internally to another ethernet port downstairs where I have two devices - A TV and a PC that I wish to connect to that same ethernet port.
This is where the switch came in. Individually both the PC and TV connect fine using the downstairs ethernet port, but when I plug them both into the switch neither of them connect and the PC comes up with a networking error along the lines of "LAN doesn't have valid IP configuration" or something along those lines.
I am in the UK and have a BT home hub 5 as my main router and the switch I purchased was a D-link DGS-105. I have another two PC's and a wifi extender in another room connected via ethernet too.
Any help would be appreciated
It gets a bit more complicated as we have internal ethernet routing in the house, which means an ethernet cable runs from router to the wall, travels internally to another ethernet port downstairs where I have two devices - A TV and a PC that I wish to connect to that same ethernet port.
This is where the switch came in. Individually both the PC and TV connect fine using the downstairs ethernet port, but when I plug them both into the switch neither of them connect and the PC comes up with a networking error along the lines of "LAN doesn't have valid IP configuration" or something along those lines.
I am in the UK and have a BT home hub 5 as my main router and the switch I purchased was a D-link DGS-105. I have another two PC's and a wifi extender in another room connected via ethernet too.
Any help would be appreciated