Hey Everyone~
While upgrading our network recently to support more computers over ethernet. I decided to buy a switch to extend our limited modem / router. Curiously it never worked at first and during a call to our ISP I was able to fix it while I was fiddling about (I told them how I fixed it but I doubt they will be suggesting the fix to others so I figured it would be helpful to post about it just in case).
For the life of me I can't imagine why this is a thing, but in the case of our modem which happens to be provided by our ISP; a Huwawei HG658 to be specific. The way I was able to get the switch to work was to plug it into the second port instead of the first. So if you happen to have the same problem (assuming this affects other modem / routers), just switch from LAN1 to any other port like LAN2 and it should work :)
Hope this helps people and if anyone knows the reason for this I would love to hear why!
Ashton.
