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connection at college for the Nintendo Switch?!?

I bought the Lan Adapter, but it couldn't find the IP Address, so I manually entered the IP address I found after going through command prompt.

Did what Nintendo said for DNS servers, but it says it cannot perform DNS name resolution.

I just want to play the 2nd DLC for Zelda. Can someone please help me out?

Thank you.
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BlackHorse6969 posted...

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Wow, it's almost like you can't read. Don't be an ass if your just going to make yourself look like a complete idiot in the process.
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What crawled up your ass TC?
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Did you try contacting Nintendo for this? I only played LAN on my PS3 and set up was a piece of cake.
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Gamer99z posted...

What crawled up your ass TC?

People who think they are being hilarious when really the just look stupid in the process.
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Go to someones house with WiFi and download the dlc.

You could also set up a router from the wall and skip the whole wired thing
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Prestoff posted...

Did you try contacting Nintendo for this? I only played LAN on my PS3 and set up was a piece of cake.

No I have not, but I have tried to search on what to do with no luck. Can't contact Nintendo right now unfortunately anyways.
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Try googles open dns?
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
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bnui_ransder posted...

Try googles open dns?
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

That is what I did, but it didn't work.

I also tried both the regular IP and the +20 IP (adding 20 to the last part of the IP address) as that is what Nintendo said to do.
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That's what you get for owning a Switch in the first place.
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Keyword is college.
They love to block ports and stuff so contact their technicians.
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MuayThai85 posted...

That's what you get for owning a Switch in the first place.

Yo, do me a favor, and don't contribute nothing to topics that are just looking for an answer to a question. You ain't being funny, and you ain't being cute.
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Foppe posted...

Keyword is college.
They love to block ports and stuff so contact their technicians.

I guess I will try that, but the Ethernet cable worked perfectly with my xbox one.
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I know it's stupid, but does your time on the switch match the local time on router or whatever? I had that problem at a friends house once
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So this is inconvenient, but worst case, if youre just trying to download DLC, couldnt you just pop over to a Starbucks and use their WiFi?
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Don't do it. If you connect your Switch to the internet you'll have to update it, then you won't be able to hack it in the future

PiOverlord posted...

MuayThai85 posted...

That's what you get for owning a Switch in the first place.

Yo, do me a favor, and don't contribute nothing to topics that are just looking for an answer to a question. You ain't being funny, and you ain't being cute.

You sound really bitter.
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Did you put in the correct gateway?
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Rika_Furude posted...

Did you put in the correct gateway?

I am almost positive, but I will double check.

My Switch has been stuck on searching for networks for a while now I noticed though...
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MuayThai85 posted...

That's what you get for owning a Switch in the first place.

Appropriate sig.
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PiOverlord posted...

Foppe posted...

Keyword is college.
They love to block ports and stuff so contact their technicians.

I guess I will try that, but the Ethernet cable worked perfectly with my xbox one.

Different services using different ports?
Perhaps they had opened for Xbox One access but not for Switch?
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MuayThai85 posted...

PiOverlord posted...

MuayThai85 posted...

That's what you get for owning a Switch in the first place.

Yo, do me a favor, and don't contribute nothing to topics that are just looking for an answer to a question. You ain't being funny, and you ain't being cute.

You sound really bitter.

He's not wrong though.
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It's karma for being a shitposter.
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MuayThai85 posted...

That's what you get for owning a Switch in the first place.

You mean the console that's been selling like hotcakes all year?
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What do you mean by "manually entered the IP address I found after going through command prompt"
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CableZL posted...

What do you mean by "manually entered the IP address I found after going through command prompt"

Entered cmd on the start menu, and once once I was prompted to give a command entered ipconfig to get my IP address.
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PiOverlord posted...

CableZL posted...

What do you mean by "manually entered the IP address I found after going through command prompt"

Entered cmd on the start menu, and once once I was prompted to give a command entered ipconfig to get my IP address.

If you put the same number you saw there in the switch, that may be part of the problem. Each device should have a unique IP address.

For example:

If you did ipconfig and saw:

IP: 192.168.0.50
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway: 192.168.0.1

Then try putting 192.168.0.75 as the IP in the switch and the same subnet mask and default gateway as you saw in command prompt.
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Actually... scratch that, it'd probably be a good idea to understand your network 1st...

Do you have a router that you plug into a modem or does your college just give you an ethernet jack on the wall to plug into?
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CableZL posted...

PiOverlord posted...

CableZL posted...

What do you mean by "manually entered the IP address I found after going through command prompt"

Entered cmd on the start menu, and once once I was prompted to give a command entered ipconfig to get my IP address.

If you put the same number you saw there in the switch, that may be part of the problem. Each device should have a unique IP address.

For example:

If you did ipconfig and saw:

IP: 192.168.0.50
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Default gateway: 192.168.0.1

Then try putting 192.168.0.75 as the IP in the switch and the same subnet mask and default gateway as you saw in command prompt.

Yeah, at first I did that, but remembered reading that the IP would be slightly different. Nintendo said to add 20, and I did, but unfortunately it still didn't work.
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CableZL posted...

Actually... scratch that, it'd probably be a good idea to understand your network 1st...

Do you have a router that you plug into a modem or does your college just give you an ethernet jack on the wall to plug into?

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The LAN adaptor has its own IP address.
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CableZL posted...

CableZL posted...

Actually... scratch that, it'd probably be a good idea to understand your network 1st...

Do you have a router that you plug into a modem or does your college just give you an ethernet jack on the wall to plug into?

Just an Ethernet jack to plug into.
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Is there a DHCP option?
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PiOverlord posted...

CableZL posted...

CableZL posted...

Actually... scratch that, it'd probably be a good idea to understand your network 1st...

Do you have a router that you plug into a modem or does your college just give you an ethernet jack on the wall to plug into?

Just an Ethernet jack to plug into.

OK. Are you just plugging the switch directly into that jack? If so, does your computer have a static IP set on it?

If it does have a static IP, there is a possibility that the college has a system that registers your computer's MAC address as an allowed device and the switch's LAN adapter may need to be added to that system.
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I think you might be right: https://doit.missouri.edu/services/internet-network/wired-network-internet/

If I am reading this right anyways.
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Looks like static IP addresses have to be specifically asked for, and they offer DHCP-based IP address assignment. So essentially as long as they're allowing your MAC address, you should just be able to plug it in. You may benefit from having a router so you can have multiple devices plugged in at once, though. I'd check to see if they allow that.

Essentially, the router would plug into the wall jack and get the IP on the "external" interface, and then it would have "internal" interfaces for your devices to plug into and get IP addresses from the router itself.
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I am sorry if my questions are dumb, I'm just not knowledgeable about technology at all.

Is there a reason that the cable worked perfectly for my Xbox one, but it doesn't work with my Switch. The only difference is the LAN adapter, which lead me to believe that the LAN adapter is the problem.

If it doesn't need to be registered, I'm curious then why it doesn't work.
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No DHCP?
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PiOverlord posted...

I am sorry if my questions are dumb, I'm just not knowledgeable about technology at all.

Is there a reason that the cable worked perfectly for my Xbox one, but it doesn't work with my Switch. The only difference is the LAN adapter, which lead me to believe that the LAN adapter is the problem.

If it doesn't need to be registered, I'm curious then why it doesn't work.

DHCP resolved on the Xbox One while now you're manually doing the IP on the Switch.
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PiOverlord posted...

I am sorry if my questions are dumb, I'm just not knowledgeable about technology at all.

Is there a reason that the cable worked perfectly for my Xbox one, but it doesn't work with my Switch. The only difference is the LAN adapter, which lead me to believe that the LAN adapter is the problem.

If it doesn't need to be registered, I'm curious then why it doesn't work.

The lan adapter is just a means to get ethernet to the switch. Choose DHCP and if it shoukd work if your college allows it. There could always be a port blocked on the router that the Switch uses that the Xbone doesn't, in which case you're probably sol unless you can get IT to open it.
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Okay, so I am restoring the settings back to where they were before I tried to manually do it.
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If it doesn't need to be registered, then I'd just use DHCP instead of trying to specify an IP address. When you plug your switch in, do you get link lights on the wall port and the LAN adapter?
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No.
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PiOverlord posted...

MuayThai85 posted...

That's what you get for owning a Switch in the first place.

Yo, do me a favor, and don't contribute nothing to topics that are just looking for an answer to a question. You ain't being funny, and you ain't being cute.

As if you have any right to complain about anything, welcher. lol

PiOverlord posted...

No.

Do you get link lights when you plug the Xbox in?
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No I do not.
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