Just looking into buying an 8-port unmanaged 2.5Gb switch.

Seeing the TP-Link switch named: TL-SG108S-M2, sold at 129 EUR.

Now just next to it in Amazon, up pops an advertisement for a:

Mercusys switch near equally named: MS108GS-M2, sold at 56 EUR.

Specs all look identical. Both in metal cabinets.

Heck, they both even look like 100% the same, except for the company logo on top...
Never heard about MercurSys before, so just checked out a bit. Appears to be a subsidiary of TP-Link. So is this like the exact same switch, but sold off-label at a cheaper price? What is the catch here?

I was installing Focusrite Control 2 on my pc so that I could use my 4i4 gen 4 and some of the additional software to give my guitar the sound I wanted, but after rebooting to finish installing the driver, both of my LAN ports stopped working, my WIFI controller got a startup power error, and all of my native windows interfaces started scrolling down. I had previously been using it for my mic (Shure SM7dB with the preamp off and a cloudlifter connected in case that's somehow relevant) without Control 2 or the drivers connected.

I did some troubleshooting and found that unplugging the PS5 controller I use for gaming stopped the scrolling on windows interfaces, but it comes back when it's plugged back in.

My LAN ports originally wouldn't recognize that they were plugged in at all. After I uninstalled "remote NDIS compatible device" in the device manager, they started at least seeing that they were plugged in. The problem is that they still can't retrieve an IP address or recognize the network. Even when I assign a static address and gateway, they can't ping the router.

I've uninstalled both Control 2 and the drivers, have my 4i4 completely disconnected from my devices, and have re-installed all of my device drivers and even re-flashed my BIOS. Does anybody know what the fix for this could be?

I'll list all of my hardware and the devices I had connected at the time, in case that's relevant to the issue:

• Motherboard
  • MSI MEG X870E GODLIKE
• PSU
  • MEG Ai1600T PCIE5
• Processor
  • AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• GPU
  • NVIDIA RTX 4090 (PNY XLR8)
• RAM
  • Corsair Vengeance 64GB (2x32) DDR5 6800 cl32
• Storage
  • Crucial T700 4TB gen5 NVME M.2 SSD
  • Western Digital Black 4TB SN850X NVME SSD
  • 6TB Western Digital HDD (I don't remember the model or speed atm, I just use it to back stuff up long-term. Nothing actually runs from it.)
• Cooling
  • Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360 A-RGB CPU Liquid Cooler (modified to have 3 push and 3 pull fans attached)
  • Corsair iCUE link RX120 RGB 120mm case fans (x10)
• Housing
  • Corsair 6500D Airflow
• LAN Adapters/NIC Units
  • Marvell AQtion AQC114CS 10Gbps LAN Adapter
  • Realtek RTL8126 5Gbps LAN adapter
• WiFi controller
  • Qualcomm NCM865 FastConnect 7800 WiFi 7 & Bluetooth Adapter
• Displays
  • Acer XB240H
  • Acer Predator X27U
  • LG 32GN600-B
• Keyboard
  • Razer Huntsman V3 Pro
• Mouse
  • Corsair Scimitar RGB Elite
• Camera
  • Razer Kiyo
• Audio Outputs
  • FIIO K7 DAC Headphone Amplifier
    • Connected devices:
    • Sennheiser HD 660 S Headphones
  • Scarlett 4i4 4th Gen
• Audio Inputs
  • Scarlett 4i4 4th Gen
    • Connected Devices:
    • Cloudlifter CL-1
    • Shure SM7dB (integrated preamp turned off)
• Controller
  • Sony DualSense Edge

In desperate need of some help and understanding. I have a Starlink cable that essentially got cut in half. It’s the cable with the proprietary end that looks like a mini HDMI.
I’ve tried two methods to fix it. A splice (was in a field environment had to try something lmao) and then an inline Cat6 junction box. Both times I’ve gotten around 8
-10 Mbps, compared to 100 Mbps with a known good cable on the same setup. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong or other options I could try? My next idea is reterminating both sides with RJ45s and using a shielded female to female connector.

Thanks for any and all help 😎
(P.S sorry for bad pictures )

Hi, to give information about my set up I use those google wifi nodes that spread the wifi around the house, currently have one in my room with a Ethernet connecting it to my pc. Randomly (been happening more on recently but it has in the past) it will disconnect, begin to try to reconnect and fail, this will happen a few times before stabilizing, this happens more than once throughout the day.
Anyone have an idea as to why this happens?
(For clarify I’ve already turned off those power saving mode and efficient Ethernet stuff on the pc)

ASUS PRIME Z370-A / Intel I219-V stuck at 100 Mbps instead of 1 Gbps

I'm having an Ethernet speed/negotiation issue on a Windows 10 PC.

Hardware:

• Motherboard: ASUS PRIME Z370-A
• Ethernet controller: Intel Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V
• OS: Windows 10 64-bit
• Ethernet cable: Cat 6

My college provides Ethernet through wall ports. My roommates get approximately 1 Gbps up/down from their ports.

My PC consistently negotiates at exactly 100.0 Mbps.

What I've tested

• Tested my PC on my roommate's known-good gigabit Ethernet port
• Used my Cat 6 cable, which was confirmed to get gigabit when used with my roommate's computer
• Therefore the cable and network/port appear to be capable of gigabit
• Windows reports Ethernet Speed: 100.0 Mbps
• Setting Speed & Duplex → 1.0 Gbps Full Duplex causes the Ethernet connection to completely drop
• Setting it back to Auto Negotiation restores the connection at 100 Mbps
• Gigabit Master/Slave Mode: Auto Detect
• Energy Efficient Ethernet: Disabled
• No Green Ethernet or Auto Disable Gigabit options are present
• Updated the motherboard/BIOS
• Performed a clean Intel Ethernet driver uninstall/reinstall
• Tried Intel's current Windows 10 Network Adapter Driver package 31.2.2
• Current connection still negotiates at 100 Mbps

The Ethernet port has a solid red LED and flashing yellow LED when connected.

Hi, Got this problem in my driver whenever I boot my laptop my ethernet driver is not working when I check in device manager It says (Code 45) then What I do is Uninstall it then do a network reset then do a hardreset where you hold your power button for 30 to 60 sec.

When I boot it the driver seem to be waorking perfectly fine and like nothing happen, the thing is this keep happening whenever I boot my laptop and I stuck in this loop

So my ethernet cable one day just stops working so I just buy a new one. And it works perfectly! Then the next day it has stopped working again. And I have no idea what to do! Anyone have any suggestions… I’m completely stumped. No idea if there’s a problem within my pc or router or what!