I simply purchased a 2020 Mac Mini with 10 gigabit ethernet. I plugged in a cat6 cable into the mac mini’s ethernet port and linked it to the wi-fi router, nevertheless it will not connect with the web, saying that it has self-assigned the IP tackle. If I take advantage of the wifi, nonetheless, every little thing works as anticipated.
Listed below are the issues I’ve tried that didn’t repair the issue.
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I re-booted the mac mini in addition to the router numerous occasions, which didn’t do something.
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I also can verify that each one ports on the router and the cables (cat6 cable on asus twin band gigabit router) I attempted aren’t defective as all of them labored on my different laptop computer and desktop (home windows and ubuntu).
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I factory-reset the router and in addition did a recent set up of OS on the mac mini, which did not remedy the issue in any respect.
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As really helpful by just a few on-line articles on this situation, I additionally deleted a few of these
.plstrecordsdata within the preferences listing and re-booted the mac mini, however this did not do something too. -
I did attempt hitting
Renew DHCP Leasebutton numerous occasions, and reset the community configurations, adopted by just a few re-booting. This didn’t resolve the difficulty in any respect. (Notice that after I received a brand new macbook professional just a few years in the past, I had the identical situation, andRenew DHCP Leaseis what fastened the difficulty) -
After hours of googling round, I spotted that this situation is probably attributable to the router’s DHCP server not giving the mac mini an accurate IP. So I modified DHCP settings within the router in order that the router will assign a static IP tackle to the mac mini’s MAC tackle. This additionally didn’t do something.
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To see if the mac mini’s NIC is even functioning. I linked the mac mini on to the modem utilizing cat6 cable, and the web labored this fashion, however I’m not positive if I can rule out the mac mini’s {hardware} being defective based mostly on this proof.
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On one event after I factory-reset the router, the mac mini was efficiently given an IP from the router, and every little thing labored briefly till I configured WPA2 password. After the password was configured, it stopped working and went again to saying it has self-assigned the IP. And now I’m not even capable of reproduce this in any respect.
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On one other event after I factory-reset the router, the mac mini was given an IP of
192.168.1.12. Nonetheless, the ethernet connection saved dropping, was very unstable, and whereas the connection was there, the web was nonetheless not working. I attempted to assign a static IP to the mac mini, however its IP tackle remained the identical (192.168.1.12). -
Disabling firewall on my router didn’t repair the issue too.
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I additionally checked to see if there’s any settings that block units with sure MAC tackle from being given IP, however I couldn’t discover such settings within the router.
One last item I did that really fastened the issue was that I configured the mac’s ethernet community settings manually by coming into IP tackle, subnet masks, router, and dns server. And it lastly labored. I first put 192.168.1.1 as DNS server, however the web was nonetheless not there. I then entered google’s public DNS tackle, which is 8.8.8.8. This made every little thing work.
I’ve actually tried each resolution that I might discover on-line relating to fixing this situation, and the one one which labored was the handbook configuration of the ethernet community settings.
I’m actually clueless as to why that is taking place.
Is the mac mini’s community {hardware} damaged? (It really works with handbook community configurations, and it even labored when immediately linked to the modem)
Is my wi-fi router’s {hardware} damaged? (Notice, all different units in my community are working simply fantastic whether or not wired or wi-fi)
Is my wi-fi router (Asus RT-N65U) not appropriate with 10gb ethernet within the mac mini? (In that case, what router ought to I get?)
If anybody can provide me extra data as to what precisely is happening that is inflicting this situation, I would be grateful as this has been bugging for me the previous few days.
