Hi,

I have a home network set up. Not a technical person and it was set up already when i bought my house.

This morning the network went down randomly. I was watching tv (which is hard wired into the home network) and it stopped working. No one was up or could have knocked anything.

The way it's set up (as i understand it) is the router is connected by cable in the walls to a netgear switch, which then runs cables to various rooms ans wireless access points. I've turned off all the wireless access points just in case.

To be clear, the router is working fine and i can connect wirelessly to that, but not any of the WAPs. If i do, i get a 'Connected with no internet' error.

So, now I'm thinking that the cable from the router to the switch is damaged. The cable in the back of the router has no lights flickering in the ethernet port and the switch has no light in the corresponding number to suggest there is a connection.

Is it most likely a cable issue?

The switch is too far from the router for me to just put a different cable in. I'd need to buy like a 15m cable.

Thanks for any advice.