So I started having connection issues with my TP-Link AC1750 smart router.
The wireless would work in all of my wireless accessories: iPad, wife's laptop, etc, but I could not connect through any of the Ethernet ports.
While I was trouble shooting the problem, I noticed none of my 2 computers was getting an Internet connection through the Ethernet cable.
I could connect one of them (PC1) directly to the modem and get Internet but the other PC (specs for that one in my signature below) I could not get a connection. I'll call that PC2
I tried changing the Ethernet cable but that did nothing. I also tried plugging into the other 3 Ethernet ports on the back of the AC1750 router to no avail.
I wasn't even getting a light on the back of PC2 where the Ethernet cable plugged into.
Luckily I had another router to try and it worked on all my PC's except PC2. I looked in Device Manager on PC2 under Network adapters and checked the properties of the Intel Ethernet connection and it said it was working properly but obviously something wasn't working properly.
I had a spare PCIe network card from a previous build so I installed that into the PC2 computer, connected the Ethernet cable and I had Internet access through the spare router.
I then connected PC2 to the AC1750 router and still no Internet. It seems the Ethernet ports were dead on the AC1750 router but the wireless function still worked.
So here's my question: what died first? The router's Ethernet ports died/shorted out and only affected one computer (PC2) or the Ethernet port on PC2 died/shorted out and that caused the Ethernet ports in the AC1750 router to stop working??
Any insight into this would be helpful....
Thanks, Steve in Central Vermont
The wireless would work in all of my wireless accessories: iPad, wife's laptop, etc, but I could not connect through any of the Ethernet ports.
While I was trouble shooting the problem, I noticed none of my 2 computers was getting an Internet connection through the Ethernet cable.
I could connect one of them (PC1) directly to the modem and get Internet but the other PC (specs for that one in my signature below) I could not get a connection. I'll call that PC2
I tried changing the Ethernet cable but that did nothing. I also tried plugging into the other 3 Ethernet ports on the back of the AC1750 router to no avail.
I wasn't even getting a light on the back of PC2 where the Ethernet cable plugged into.
Luckily I had another router to try and it worked on all my PC's except PC2. I looked in Device Manager on PC2 under Network adapters and checked the properties of the Intel Ethernet connection and it said it was working properly but obviously something wasn't working properly.
I had a spare PCIe network card from a previous build so I installed that into the PC2 computer, connected the Ethernet cable and I had Internet access through the spare router.
I then connected PC2 to the AC1750 router and still no Internet. It seems the Ethernet ports were dead on the AC1750 router but the wireless function still worked.
So here's my question: what died first? The router's Ethernet ports died/shorted out and only affected one computer (PC2) or the Ethernet port on PC2 died/shorted out and that caused the Ethernet ports in the AC1750 router to stop working??
Any insight into this would be helpful....
Thanks, Steve in Central Vermont