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I'm looking for the private IP. (The one your router has on the inside network)
How do I find that? Is it written on the router somewhere, or is there a command to run to find it?
How did you set it up? Did you just plug it in and forget about it?
I didn't set it up; another member of my household did
Oh
Is your phone connected to WiFi? What do the network settings show on your phone?
Did you want a specific part of network settings, or is this helpful?
Set your gateway to 192.168.1.1. Can you then ping 1.1.1.1?
I tried changing the IP in manual settings, I'm not sure how I ping an IP, I assume it's a command that I don't know, but as the screenshots show, accessing a website didn't work. I saw an IP in the startup menu and tried that but it didn't seem to work
Your netmask should be 255.255.255.0
Why is that? I applied the change, and restarted the Ethernet connection, but I still don't have internet
You have a upstream issue then. I would start by checking the physical port and then work your way up until you find the fault.
It is also possible you have a bad network card as this is older hardware
Hmm. One way to check multiple options at once is to try the install again and see it internet is still present when installing the OS, as it was before. If it is, that would rule out a hardware issue.
I tried what I said, reinstalling to see if it still had internet. It did not. Therefore I went into a rabbithole of trying to rule out specific things of why it was working then but not now, and I still have no idea why it was working then, but I have plugged the Ethernet powerline into a new, more inconvenient, plug socket, and the wired internet is mostly working! I can still access most sites, but Firefox won't connect to addons.mozilla.com or accounts.firefox.com. Idk if that's a Firefox issues or a network issue, but it's mostly working now, which is great!
Here are the network settings