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Ethernet behaving as wifi

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jeffpesos

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I brought my PC back home for the holidays and when I went to plug in my ethernet cable, it would not connect. I’ve tried a few things like resetting my modem and router, reinstalling ethernet drivers, and resetting network settings but no luck… Then I removed my wifi receiver from my PC and kept the ethernet cable in to see if the PC was prioritizing wifi…. to my surprise I was still able to access the internet. Even though my PC says not connected under the ethernet tab, it is displaying that I’m connected to wi-fi.

After troubleshooting for a while, it’s become apparent that the connection will randomly disconnect and it’s also pretty slow… I wouldn’t care if it was just a display error, but my ethernet connection is straight up behaving like a wifi connection.

For context, I have used this ethernet cable on this PC in the past without issue. However back at my apartment I used a TP-Link Powerline Adapter for my PC and used the ethernet cable in question for the ps5.
Running Windows 11
 
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You have asked for help but have told us nothing about your hardware​

Can you Download and run and then post. https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy/download
To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:​

In Speccy, click File, and then click Publish Snapshot.​

In the Publish Snapshot dialog box, click Yes to enable Speccy to proceed.

Speccy publishes the profile and displays a second Publish Snapshot dialog box. You can open the URL in your default browser, copy it to the clipboard, or close the dialog box.

The last part of each URL is randomized, so only people you provide with the URL will be able to find your profile.

The information given in Speccy cannot be used by anyone to hack your system

Could you also include the power supply specs E.g Cooler Master 850W Gold V2 NOT E.g 850w
 
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