This is not a problem, because it has been resolved, but I'm curious about what the explanation behind it is.
I came home and found that the internet connection wasn't working (nor LAN), after some searching, I realized the problem was that while cleaning the room, I'd dropped the couch onto the ethernet cable. Once I got the cable out from under, the connection was restored.
Now, I don't get how this is possible, isn't the cable just conducting electrons. Was the passage of the electrons really obstructed by the couch pinching the cable? At the end of the day the cable is a copper wire, isn't it? I don't imagine a copper wire can be pinched, there's not much give to copper.
I came home and found that the internet connection wasn't working (nor LAN), after some searching, I realized the problem was that while cleaning the room, I'd dropped the couch onto the ethernet cable. Once I got the cable out from under, the connection was restored.
Now, I don't get how this is possible, isn't the cable just conducting electrons. Was the passage of the electrons really obstructed by the couch pinching the cable? At the end of the day the cable is a copper wire, isn't it? I don't imagine a copper wire can be pinched, there's not much give to copper.