Hey y’all. I have a Ethernet switch (Netgear gs305v3) that I have in my room and it’s plugged into my Ethernet wall outlet which I assume goes to a router (I live in an apartment so idk) and I have my Nintendo switch and my Pc plugged into the switch. Problem is, my Nintendo switch connects to the internet just fine but my pc almost never does. I get the error that the dns server is not responding, but I’ve tried pretty much everything like restarting my pc, the switch, flushing my pc’s dns list resetting the drivers, and more. What else could I do?
I would do this.
Connect your PC directly to that wall port, and reboot it. If it then has Internet connectivity, check what IP address it is assigned (How you do that depends on what operating system you’re using - google it)
Once you’ve got its IP address, you want to see if it is a public/routable IP address, or a private/nonroutable one.
If its a public one, then you almost certainly only get ONE IP address from the connection, and cannot connect multiple devices without a home router (which do NAT to allow the one IP to be shared)
If it is a private one then you have some other issue. Note that once you install a router, then devices connected to its LAN will have private IP addresses, rather than the public one that will now be assigned to the router’s WAN interface.
Private nonroutable IP addresses include any that start with:
192.168.*10.*172.16.* through 172.31.*https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1918#:~:text=1996%0A%0A%0A3.-,Private%20Address%20Space,-The%20Internet%20Assigned
as well as
100.64.* through 100.127.*https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6598#:~:text=Address%20Space.%0A%0A%20%20%20The-,Shared%20Address%20Space,-address%20range%20is