@JamesC 

Hi terziyski

I had used the cable supplied with the two routers,  plus the cable that was connected to the old router.  The LAN indicator does not come on constantly it flashes very intermittently i.e. its off for about five seconds and then flashes,  and then off for another five seconds.

As I said there is no problem with the cable or NIC on the PC using the existing MR6400.

Getting another PC would be problematic to test,  but I guess I can try.

Question if you can answer what has changed between an MR6400 and an MR500 on the LAN ports,  in their default configuration (I cannot adjust the MR500 as I cannot connect to it via the PC).

Many thanks

James

  @Sunshine 

Hi Sunshine,

To confirm all four ports on both Archer's behave the same,  whether I connect the LAN cable to my home PC or works laptop.  I have used the LAN cable provided.

 

On either PC or Laptop there is no immediate negotiation visible in Network settings for the NIC's when you plug the other end into the Archer,  the only visible thing that happens is that the PC / Lan connection indicator on both Archer's flashes momentarily ON,  and then stays off for 2 seconds and then flashes on again.

 

If I plug the older TP Link 6400 in,  then you do see an immediate negotiations visible in the Network settings for the NIC's on both PC and laptop and the pc / lan connector indicator on the router comes on solidly.

 

 

In the system logs on the Archers there are only Information level notices about DNS resolve succede,  I have checked that it is set to log "debug".

 

I have applied the latest windows 10 updates and checked the firmware version on the Archers is the latest.

 

I have been through the NIC configuraton on both PC and laptop and cannot see any difference from it and there default settings,  have adjusted numerous settiings and set back to detault again,  all with the same results i.e. no connection to Archer's but connection to the old 6400.

 

Do you have access to an Archer ?  If so if you connect via the LAN what do you see ?  From an engineering perspective I would have to assume the LAN ports are not operational on both Archers.

 

Many thanks.

James

I tried to copy the information level log about DNS in the body of the text above but it would not let me then post my message, hence the multiple responses.

So for anyone's benefit, the reason that the MR500 will not talk to an onboard NIC is that it requires a 1G NIC, in the auto negotiation phase if it cannot determine its connected to a 1G NIC it will not work. Its a shame as I wanted to use the MR500 but not prepared to change my home PC for it. Am now reluctantly using another manufacturers router.