Okay, looks much better now. Also, 2x version is up.

Hi guys

Some IT guy did some tinkering to my router, as a result oen of my computers can't connect to it anymore

He turned off DHCP and made my second router something of an "access point"

I can connect to the router as before just fine on my laptop (runs macos)

But on my desktop the connection shows "no internet, connected" as status (windows 10 x64)

I tried accessing the other router using the ipv4 address that showed in macos

But it returns "connection refused" (tested in chrome, latest version)

What's the next step? I don't know anything about networking and want to try at least something before resorting to the factory reset

is this an office setting?

which router are you trying to connect to?

In VSCode, I want to have two folders open attached to two git projects. How do I switch focus between the two folders so I can conveniently use VSC's git features on both folders?

that's a perfect question for the main site

Which main site?

superuser

Super User itself or s

Ok

@Burgi Hi It's not an office setting; it's my home setup

Router A is the main router, router B has DHCP disabled

I'm trying to connect to router B

is router A still handing out DHCP?

Yes

which port on router B is the cable to router A plugged into?

Good question-- I'm not aware of the naming conventions in regards to the plug standards, basically I'm using ethernet out on router A, and I'm connecting it to "internet IN" on router B

This has sort of worked in the past, but only consistently with DHCP enabled on router B

But then again this apparently lead to crashes of the router system so perhaps it did not work entirely

And with ethernet out I'm referring to the plug standard which is normally connected to say, a desktop PC

yeah don't do that unless you really know what you're doing.

most routers are too dumb to do it properly anyway.

How would I go about doing it properly?

I mean, it's possible right?

just plug the cable into the switch ports, not the internet in port

should magically start working

^^ that. Though daisy chaining switches like that is never good.

i know it increases latency but is it really noticeable on a small network?

well yeah it'd prob be fine

but most of the time, the cost of getting a proper 8 port switch isn't that much

And so many of these routers are dodgy, anyways

due to things like bad psu, random buggy firmware etc.

from the sounds of it he needed an extra Access point