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… When it comes to the LAN, it's best to start simple and slowly expand from there, planning out the entire network and documenting as much as possible to make future troubleshooting and diagnostics considerably easier. …
… I assumed an hour of troubleshooting could solve all that. …
… A full router reset can actually complicate the rest of the troubleshooting process, so it's best to leave it till the end. …
… What should have been a plug-and-play network fix turned into days of troubleshooting, revealing that only some of my sockets could even connect between the two adapters. …
… They restart the router, check for firmware updates, call their ISP, or start messing with DNS settings, and these can all be appropriate troubleshooting steps, but it skips past the most fundamental layer: the physical one. …
… And in case you didn't know, your ISP can also monitor your web traffic and has a backdoor in place for "troubleshooting." So, if you haven't already, replace your ISP router right now. …
… After troubleshooting various devices to see if the issue was local, I ended up checking my firewall rules, and that's when it all made sense. …