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So I got my second work day and decided to set up the local network. I opened everything so each computer can see each other. There are 3 PCs, one of them is just shit and we'll throw it away and 2 main PCs. Tested connection, tried opening shared folders.... One pc (connected to router using ethernet cable) can see the 2nd pc, but not vice versa. 2nd pc tho connected to router using wifi. How do I make it mutually visible? Give me even stupidest suggestions, except for "did you open network visibility in network settings?" Of course I did. And yeah, it's win11.

Hello, I have an old computer that my parents use for browsing internet and not much, but I have a Windows Server that we use as a NAS (all connected over gigabit ethernet though a TP-Link [TL-SG105] Switch). The problem that I’m having is that this old computer (Intel Core i5 3450; Motherboard Gigabyte H61M-S2v-B3; 6gb DDR3 Ram; Windows 7 Ultimate 64bits SP1 Build 7601; Realtek RTL8111E chip) is that actually is working at max 100mbps. I tried a lot of thigs, changing the “Speed & Duplex” configuration on the network driver to “1.0 Gbps Full Duplex”, updating the drivers though the manufacturer page (Gigabyte support page for this motherboard), updating the driver though Realtek official driver page, using 6 different ethernet cables (cat 5e and 6a), connecting it to the TP-Link gigabit switch, connecting it to the Tp-Link Router itself (Archer C80, it has gigabit ports), but nothing is working. Windows in the adapter details is always saying that it’s having a 100 mbps connection no matter what I do. All the other computers that are connected through the same Tp-Link gigabit switch are having a correct gigabit connection except this specific computer. I have no idea what else do.

Currently I switch between using my work laptop which is plugged into a docking station and my home desktop. Every time I want to change computers I have to unplug all my USB's and Ethernet from my docking station, crawl under my desk, and plug it into my desktop. I would really like a solution to fix this. All of my video cable don't need to be switched since I have everything hooked up via HDMI for my laptop and Display Port for my desktop. I currently have 5 USB's and an ethernet I swap between PC's. My new monitor supports 2 USB inputs so I could potentially go down to only needing to switch 4 USB's and an ethernet but I don't know of any good switches that would make it so I no longer need to unplug everything. Current USB devices include Logitech C9 series 1080p webcam, Razer viper ultimate mouse, Akko Mod 004 keyboard, Moto M2 2X2 preamp, and a Schiit Modius DAC. I use my home computer for gaming. Does anyone have recommendation on what I need to solve this problem? I'm about to upgrade my PC to an i7 13700K, MSI MPG Z690 Carbon wifi Motherboard, 5600 DDR 5 ram, 3080 GPU, 2 NVME SSDs, and a 1000w power supply. My download speed is only about 6-800 mb and there is no plan to go to Gigabit. Based on ports location and available I believe I am using this docking station for my work computer https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-Docking-Station-Adapter/dp/B07B63BD78/ref=sr_1_26?crid=3PPN0DJKF3HBC&keywords=Lenovo+docking+station&qid=1674147000&s=electronics&sprefix=lenovo+docking+station%2Celectronics%2C100&sr=1-26&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.18ed3cb5-28d5-4975-8bc7-93deae8f9840

Hello, Why did the Ethernet option disappear from my available networks? The green led is on. For background info; I was gaming online on my PC when my dad decided to flip one of the house circuit breakers off. My pc wasn't on that circuit but our modem was; the modem was bricked. My dad called the ISP and they sent out a tech and replaced the modem for free. The new modem is up and running and dads PC is connected via Ethernet with no issues. WiFi for phones is working as well. However, my PC cannot connect to the internet over Ethernet; I don't know why. I tried all the solutions in this article and a few other things and nothing seems to work. I am not able to connect to the modem via Ethernet and I do not know why. Is the Ethernet port on my MoBo dead? The green led is on so I suspect not. What other troubleshooting steps should I try? Thank you

Hi guys! This is my first ever pc build and downloaded windows 10 pro onto it. Although when I plug in my ethernet cable I still have no internet. (and yes the cable is plugged in correctly into my router and pc) Device manager shows something like this (the pictures.) Ive tried looking it up but still get very lost! here are my specs if they are important to my situation! -Asus Rog Strix B550a -AMD Ryzen 5600 - Corsair Vengence 16gb 2x8 - Corsair MP400 1 TB - Zotac GeForce Gtx 1650 - Corsair RM750 -Corsair iCue H100i

I am not very tech smart when it comes to wifi/internet stuff, for some reason only when im playing games, my ping will spike or ill get packet loss kinda frequently and I'm not really sure the problem. I run ethernet and It only recently started happening and I dont know why. Tried windows reset network and reinstalling drivers but that didnt do anything. Plan to change ethernet cable but i feel like that probably wont work either. Any suggestions or help?

I was mainly wondering If there is a pcie card out there that has just ethernet and Bluetooth and skip the Wi-Fi. I was wanting ethernet with more throughput and realized that my motherboard is the limiting factor. But I also want Bluetooth due to my headphones. Is there a card out there?

I just moved in to my new home that has a ethernet cable box that goes into all the rooms. The cables seem to be CAT7a, thats what I can read on them(category 7a) When I plug a Cat5e cable from my router into the Cat7a box and then another Cat5e in each of the rooms, my connection goes down to 100/50 mbps, but if I run a cable from my router (Cat5e) directly to my PC then I get 1000/100 mbps which is what I'm supposed to get. I don't know if I need to use shielded cables or if it will make a ground loop? I'm not really that familiar with internet cables. Any and all help is appreciated, thank you

On a whim decided to set up a modded Minecraft server to play with a friend. Ports seem to be forwarded correctly because they are able to join the server, but very shortly after doing so, my ethernet will crash. The adapter cannot be disabled, and upon trying to run troubleshooter it hangs indefinitely. Only way to fix it is with a reboot, and the issue is 100% replicateable. I haven't had this issue at all before, which is quite weird. I hosted a Dyson Sphere Program server around a month ago and that seemed to work perfectly fine, and I've also hosted Minecraft servers on the same mobo in the past with no issues. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot or what tests to run to get more info for you guys? Specs: Windows 10 Education Gigabyte X570 AORUS PRO WIFI ATX AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Gigabyte RTX 3060Ti 4x8GB DDR4-3600 RAM Corsair RM750x White PSU I've had the motherboard for 2 or 3 years now, and have issues with USB power cutting out intermittently, and also had to disable XMP a few months ago because my computer suddenly started BSoD'ing on boot with it turned on. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the main culprit. I've done some looking around online about this issue and saw a lot of people talking about a faulty ethernet adapter that will disable as a safety measure if it gets overloaded from outside traffic, does this sound like it might be what's going on? Or just general board starting to fail altogether? Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

My computer is currently limited to 100Mbps. I'm connected via ethernet with a known good Cat6 cable but it won't go past 100Mbps. For some reason it seems like each ethernet port of my motherboard is connected to a different internet controller (IDK if that's normal, my knowledge with internet solutions is quite limited), I aready updated the driver for both to the latest version provided by Intel and it still didn't fix it. When trying to do the Intel troubleshoot of changing the "Speed & Duplex" value to "Auto negotiation" both adapter were already set to that. Idk what else to try here. When this screenshot was taken I was currently connected to the Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (2) I218-V and still am.

Internet connection is stuttering and often disappears for several seconds. Both with ethernet and wifi. Factory reset the router and the problem persists. ISP says everything seems fine on their end and connected my PC directly to the source instead of through the router to check. Problem persists. I don't think anything is wrong with my pc because all connected devices experience the stutters. Any ideas? Kinda giving up hope here.

I'm remaking this thread kind of as the last thread I made gave me absolutely 0 answers on what I needed and since LTT recently made a video on moca, maybe more people have info about it. I currently use powerline to get from my router to my pc which is from the basement to my room on the 2nd floor. Its better than wifi and I get around 100Mbps down but the problem is, my parents pay for gigabit and dont even use it fully. Now note this is my parents house as I am still in college, I cannot run new cables, I cannot drill holes, I have to work with what I have. This house was rigged with a bunch of coax cables back in 2011 by our isp at the time, not a clue who it was. I cannot find any info online about this coax cable except for someone selling them on amazon with no description. Here is the exact writing on the side of the cable in the quote below. There is a coax cable that is spooled up in the corner of my room that goes to a coax hub in the basement. I can obviously disconnect the coax cable as I dont use cable tv in my room to have a direct connection from my pc to the router. I don't know what my coax cable could support speed wise since its from 2011 although we do have gigabit internet through coax but the one connected to the router converts from the one below, a CATV to a CATVX which doesnt make sense as it would use the slowest speed one. I have no other info on my coax cable like ohm rating unless someone can find it online for me. I could also honestly say screw it and just buy a moca adapter, test it to see if it works/gives better speeds, and if it doesnt, return it. But I don't want to do that.

Asus Strix B550 gaming f with Intel I225-V on board LAN. Windows 10 Hey, My wife's PC has started to act poorly on her Ethernet recently, between slow loading website and cannot connect to game servers/services", and Windows troubleshoot says its "Your computer appears to be correctly configured, but the device or resource is not responding". I have taken a few troubleshooting steps and been unable to work out what is wrong... I have tried updating everything from Windows, drivers, bios and fresh installed windows 2x. I have also tried different settings such a different DNS, removed proxy, turned off power saving settings, and a bunch of CMD commands however nothing seems to work. This issue does not happen on WiFi however.

Hi, so I was looking for a way to connect my PC (basement) to Ethernet, but I can’t run a cable from my router (upstairs) to my rig, anyone got something that will help me out with this?

Hello everyone, Soo, as the topic suggests, i need some guidance on configuring Router as an Access point (if i'm correct). I'm pretty tech oriented guy, i'm not new to computers, only networking setups. So in my rented flat, i use my phone's hotspot to internet on all devices i need. So basically it's my phone, laptop, my tv, girlfriend's laptop, and that's it. And i have a problem, where whenever i turn on my tv, i basically manually have to connect to tv, because it very rarely connects to my phone's hotspot on it self to work, so i though i might put some modem/router/access point just by the tv, so it would be on the ethernet cable instead of wifi. So now i have to set up some sort of device, which would connect to my phone's hotspot as soon as i get home and it would share that internet through etherent to the tv and wi-fi to other devices like laptops and such. So 1 question, is what kind of device do i need? My best quess is access point? 2: Is it even doable that it would take internet data from wi-fi not ethernet cable as spread it out? 3: What kind of Bridge configuration terms am i looking for? 4. I found laying around Pirelli DRG A125G Router, which has lot's of bridge'ing configuration protocols, and i'm not familiar ir any of them, so what exactly i am looking for? I uploaded, a barebones picture of what kind of setup do i need if that makes anything easier? Thanks for anyone in advance who is willing to give any help and advice on this.

Budget (including currency): no budget but hopefully not looking over £40 Country: England Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: games Other details I’ve got all my stuff for a mid range gaming pc and remembered I forgot about Wi-Fi as from a description assumed it was built in however the board I’m getting (ASrock Z590 pro4) has an m.2 Wi-Fi slot would an Intel ax201 wireless card be sufficient to connect me to the internet (I’m sorry if it’s obvious I just want to triple check) as Ethernet is not a current option. thank you for any advice I’m just trying to make sure I don’t get the wrong thing.

hey guys, Ever since i changed my MOBO to a new one (ASUS Rog Strix B550-f), every now and then when i turn off my computer and the next day i turn it on it does not recgonize/have internet. tried everything from connecting it to all other ports and the only solution i have found that works is that switch the ethernet cable. my little brother has his computer next to mine so when it has happened i just switch the ethernet cable from his to mine and from mine to his and both work, so it can't be the cables because both have worked in my PC and my brothers PC. i just turned it on after it being turned off since last night and same issue, no internet and the fix was to swap cables with my little brother. kinda annoying i have to do this almost everytime i turn on my pc.. Any idea what it could be? thanks in advance.

hey guys, Ever since i changed my MOBO to a new one (ASUS Rog Strix B550-f), every now and then when i turn off my computer and the next day i turn it on it does not recgonize/have internet. tried everything from connecting it to all other ports and the only solution i have found that works is that switch the ethernet cable. my little brother has his computer next to mine so when it has happened i just switch the ethernet cable from his to mine and from mine to his and both work, so it can't be the cables because both have worked in my PC and my brothers PC. Any idea what it could be? thanks in advance.

Got a question about MOCA. So I know my modem can do Moca, but what else do I need to connect my ethernet cable to coax through this device in the link below? Do I just plug the two cables into it or are splitters and such required? I'm exploring other ways to stream to my TV besides WIFI since I no longer have a cable TV box. Link: MoCA 2.5 Network Adapter

so my Ethernet on my pc is no longer working, im not sure what i did to make it stop or if it did it on its own, but i can't sean to get it to come back. i have tried updating the drivers, and it did not help. The only thing I have found is in device manger it shows "Windows is still setting up the class configuration for this device. (Code 56)"

hi, i have a problem with my pc. its been sitting for some time(2-3 months) without graphic card and now that i finally bought one i cant connect my internet through wire. i tested that cable on my laptop and it works just fine. tried to reset the router, did fresh instal of windows 3 times flash the bios twice, cleared cmos and all of the internet tips i could find like instaling drivers, uninstaling adapter and it still dont work :< i though that the integrated network card on the motherboard may be fault but i can sometimes se orange and red lights one the network port and when i connect pc and laptop it seems to see some kind of network but when i tried to connect pc to router it just dont see anything like if there was no ethernet cable. pls help im starting to lose hope :( R5 5500/ R5 1600 RTX 2080 X370 CROSSHAIR VI HERO 16GB DDR4 CORSAIR VENGANCE RM 850W

Seeking advice on whether this is a software issue or a hardware issue. Recently purchased a pre-built gaming PC. It's the "best" model from Redux whose specs can be found here. It's running on the most recent Windows 11 version. It's brand new out of the box. Nothing has been modified or touched. I already went through steps with their support team and they haven't been able to help me fix this. I'm genuinely stumped. The Issue: The internet works fine when I use WiFi. The Ethernet is defaulting to the lowest possible video quality and buffering. The Bluetooth randomly drops out (like if you muted the video) and comes right back in. No explanation. I set up the internet using a Cat 8 Ethernet cable. The cords are only a month old so there's no chance it's the cord. I was using it on my previous computer with no issues. My internet is a 1Gig plan which I've tested routinely during this. It's not my internet service. What I tried: Went into the Windows Troubleshooter and ran scan after scan. It detects no issues with the LAN drivers or the WiFi. It did detect a radio channel issue with the Bluetooth but it stated it fixed whatever that issue may have been. Still having the Bluetooth drops regardless. I went into the Device Manager and manually checked for hardware updates. None were listed so I eventually uninstalled the LAN driver and reinstalled it. That didn't fix the issue either. Even tried toying with internet settings and changing my DNS (tried both Google and Cloudfare). No fix. My last step which was today was I did a full reinstall of the OS. I had no real loss because the computer was so new but even after the reinstall the issue persisted. I'm at the point now where I think the issue is hardware related and related to the actual motherboard they used. The motherboard is the ASUS B660 Series | Intel The only reason I think it's hardware is both the Ethernet and Bluetooth are showing issues and that's the common denominator. I'm just trying to figure out if maybe something is simply in conflict and I'm not actually dealing with a hardware issue. (I hope) No one from Redux has been able to give me an answer and I'm running out of ideas beyond just returning it. I'm hoping one of you might have an idea of what I could try. I appreciate your help in advance. Edit: Ending up solving it through a random search. Turns out the Intel chips used in my specific computer do not work correctly with the IP6 prototols of my ISPs provider. I had to go into my network settings and manually disable all of the IP6 processes and the issue completely fixed itself. Honestly, frustrating as all hell but grateful I found the issue. The video in question I found:

So I've been trying to convince my parents to let me do an ethernet cable from the router in the basement to my room on the top floor. They keep saying sure but never do anything about it. I then realized that I have a coax cable curled up in the corner of my room which leads to the basement. My plan is to use MoCA to just use the coax cable as a medium for ethernet since its already run and ill just connect an ethernet cable on each end, one to the router and the other to my computer. My problem is, im seeing 2 different things online. One popular is MoCA and the other is just a simple coax to RJ45 conversion cable like this. Which do I need? I need one on both ends since it would be going from the router as ethernet to the coax medium then back to ethernet on my PC. I'm not entirely sure what MoCA really is, all I know is that it turns coax into ethernet but I'm not sure where it exactly is used and in what case. If the answer is MoCA on both ends, what is a good priced MoCA connector? I only need gigabit

I'm a college student, and I recently moved my PC back home for Thanksgiving break. I'm using an ethernet connection and the speeds are great, but I have significant latency. I have a 1 gbps internet connection at home. This wasn't the case before, and my internet connection at school was fine as well. Playing YouTube videos in FHD and up requires buffering, even though this wasn't an issue before. Going on other websites have significant load times as well. I have tried restarting my PC, restarting the router, and disabling and reenabling my network adapter but to no avail. The only significant change I made since going back to school was reinstalling Windows 11. How can I fix this?

Hello, I was searching on Google for some help but the problem is that I don't really know what to look for. So I live in an apartment and my rent includes 1 gigabit internet but I have Ethernet port on my wall so I tried 2 different routers but that did not worked since if I understand correctly, they just send data trough Ethernet, not receive. But if I connect the Ethernet port with cable to my laptops Ethernet port, it works just fine. Problem is that I want to connect it to a router but I don't know which one to look for that is decent and also cheap. I am talking about Ethernet (wall) to Ethernet (router) with 1 gigabit speed trough lan and WiFi can be whatever, the WiFi is for neighbors and guests but my laptop allows only 8 devices connected to it's hotspot which is quite low.