Hello all,
I just moved back into my parent's house and I play a lot of videogames for context. When I was setting up my pc here I plugged my ethernet cord into the wall jack in my room as well as my desktop and noticed that it didn't work (says ethernet cable unplugged and when I try to find what the error is it says that my ethernet cable may be broken) so I assumed it was the cord so I went and got another one and when that didn't work I was very confused. I then wanted to test a different ethernet port so I brought my laptop to another room with an ethernet jack, that wall port didn't work with either of the 2 cords. I then took the laptop to the router and it connected instantly when plugged in with ethernet.
The wifi still works fine and the router is doing its job, however, out network is a little complicated. We have extenders throughout our house that make the wifi connection better in other areas of the house. I asked my dad if he knew how the ethernet works throughout the house. He told me we have a second router that is connected to the main router and the second router connects to all the extenders throughout the house. He also says that there is an ethernet cord that goes from the second router to the wall jack to send the internet to all the wall jacks of the house.
My main question is, is this how all of this is supposed to work? is the problem somewhere in the walls? I know that there is a network panel type switchboard thing for our internet in a closet and I have yet to look at it. If I go and look at it what should I be looking for to be the problem or is this an issue im going to have to hire someone to fix?
I just moved back into my parent's house and I play a lot of videogames for context. When I was setting up my pc here I plugged my ethernet cord into the wall jack in my room as well as my desktop and noticed that it didn't work (says ethernet cable unplugged and when I try to find what the error is it says that my ethernet cable may be broken) so I assumed it was the cord so I went and got another one and when that didn't work I was very confused. I then wanted to test a different ethernet port so I brought my laptop to another room with an ethernet jack, that wall port didn't work with either of the 2 cords. I then took the laptop to the router and it connected instantly when plugged in with ethernet.
The wifi still works fine and the router is doing its job, however, out network is a little complicated. We have extenders throughout our house that make the wifi connection better in other areas of the house. I asked my dad if he knew how the ethernet works throughout the house. He told me we have a second router that is connected to the main router and the second router connects to all the extenders throughout the house. He also says that there is an ethernet cord that goes from the second router to the wall jack to send the internet to all the wall jacks of the house.
My main question is, is this how all of this is supposed to work? is the problem somewhere in the walls? I know that there is a network panel type switchboard thing for our internet in a closet and I have yet to look at it. If I go and look at it what should I be looking for to be the problem or is this an issue im going to have to hire someone to fix?
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