My house is wired for ethernet. I'm trying to connect another AP in my basement. I have a small switch connected to the ethernet network in the house. I need a switch because the AP is powered using POE. The fios router sits in a closet on the main level. Basement is unfinished so i'm not connecting to a wall plate, just an ethernet cable the fios tech labeled as the one that connects to the fios router in the closet. So setup is like this:
my switch ---- fios ethernet cable ---- closet wall plate ---- fios router
Wifi works just fine. But, I can't ping the fios router from my switch. If I plug my switch directly into a port on the fios router, I can ping the router and out to the internet. That tells me it shouldn't be a configuration issue. But using the hard ethernet connections elsewhere in the house does not work.
Further, it appears I have phsyical connectivity to the router from the basement. When I unplug the ethernet cable from the port on the router, the switch port goes down. So that proves connectivity.
Any thoughts?
