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Need help with in home networking

song510
Community Member

Good morning! I'm a networking novice, so I'm sure there's a simple answer. I'm trying to set up my in-home network that already we newly hardwired cat-6 throughout the home. So to start, I have an Xfinity cable modem, Netgear CM1000. I've hooked that up into my TP-Link SG1016DE which is a 16 port switch. Then inside the home, I've connected on one of the ethernet ports my main Google Wifi puck. That works perfectly, and meshes with the other two pucks and provides great wifi speeds. However, whenever I plug any other device direct into any of my other ethernet ports, there is no internet connection. 

Is it the switch, an internet setting? What am I missing? I've googled and googled but cannot seem to have a good grasp of the technical terms to really find a similar situation and solution. Thanks in advance!

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olavrb
Platinum Product Expert
Platinum Product Expert

The primary puck acts as a router (NAT, firewall, DHCP). Thus the switch should come after the Nest Wifi primary, not before.

Currently, when plugging another device to the switch, it gets directly exposed to the internet (not good), and probably gets your one and only WAN IP.

Also, Nest Wifi has it's own loop protection mechanism, STP (spanning tree protocol). Make sure you disable any such functionality on the switch.


I don't work for Google.

BHultgren
Community Member

As mentioned by olavrb, make sure your modem is connected to the wan port of the primary puck, and then connect the other network port on the puck to your switch. 

I had a similar connectivity issue where my devices connected to the switch were not able to be identified by anything over wifi. I changed the cable connecting the primary puck to the switch from a cat6a to cat5e, and all my problems went away. No idea why, but I read something similar in another thread here. It's still 1GbE, so no harm done. Maybe give this a try, since it is a cheap option. 

EdwardT
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi folks,

 

@olavrb and @BHultgren, thanks for the help!

 

@song510, how's it going with your Google Wifi? Still need our help?

 

Thanks,

Edward

Jeff
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hey everyone,

 

I'm just following up on Edward's last message to see if you still needed some help or to see if you got things sorted out. If you're all set or need more input, just let us know.

 

Thanks,

Jeff

song510
Community Member

Thank you everyone for your help in clarifying. It’s weird as I’ve plugged the modem to the main google Wi-Fi puck, and then from the puck to the switch. But all Ethernet ports still won’t get internet connection. The connection is detected by both computer and on switch via the green dot, but it still won’t get an IP address to get internet. Arrrghhh

Jeff
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hey song510,

 

This one remains crazy, I see. I did want to double check something that olavrb mentioned, however. Did you ensure that STP is disabled on the switch so that the Nest router handles that alone?

 

Thanks,

Jeff

Princesss
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hey song510,

 

Chiming in to see if you still need assistance with this. Hope the previous post helped. Let us know if you have additional questions, otherwise we’ll be locking the thread.
 

Best,

Princess

Princesss
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi song510,

 

Due to inactivity, I'll go ahead and lock this thread in 24 hours. Feel free to start a new thread if you need assistance with your Google speakers and we'd be glad to assist you further.
 

Best,

Princess