Default Ethernet cable no longer working?

Yes those are my 2 options. But thing is would the 50ft cable eventually have the same thing happen like the other ethernet cables?

The wifi isn't very good signal which is why i dont like the wireless.

Someone said he finds it impossible for the router to have overheated because if that was the reason for the ethernet cable ports to melt and thus i cant pull the ethernet cables out... then the router wouldn't work either anymore. That router still shows green lights and the last port when i put a small ethernet cable into it from my laptop... it works. Does anyone figure a reason for this? Much of this makes zero sense.

If it was heat and caused the melting, why would router still work with the last port?

Okay so based on this, is it 100 percent most of you all say it has to be glue then?

Everything just doesn't add up. Because why would someone use glue because that would screw internet up for everyone. No one has their own internet we all sharing the wifi.

Another question i have is do you think someone who was asked to look at the wifi routers who is suppose to fix the configuration because wifi signal isn't good... do you think anyone that is doing this would ever use glue to try to fix this issue? I think someone came over last week to look at the routers because someone was saying the wifi signal wasn't working so the person in charge who usually bring someone to come and take a look at it. That person would never think about using glue to say tighten the ethernet cables in thinking it would make it work right?

I'm with Layback Bear here. If someone would want to use glue it would be to prevent someone else removing the Ethernet Cables as a sort of physical tamper protection. It's pointless in this case since you all use the WiFi anyway (unless someone else is lying & wasn't sure which cable was theirs & glued them all cos someone kept pulling theirs out).

I dare say you could try using a small bladed scalpel (if you can get hold of one) & with the router powered off you could try and gently insert the blade around between the plug and socket to clear out the glue. If the three ports don't work anyway then you aren't really going to break much more tbh.

Okay I don't know what to say now. I just went and bought a 50 ft ethernet cable, it was a cat6 and not cat5 one because they didn't have any cat5... well it DID NOT WORK.

Basically when i connected from laptop to the last ethernet porn in the router, all it shows is the computer searching for a signal.

This makes zero sense because the ethernet cable is brand new. And yesterday we had 2 extra ethernet cables to test and one of them didnt work but the other one did ... as when i connected that short ethernet cable to last slot on router... it worked and there was a wired connection.

Does anyone know why in the world my ethernet cable isn't working since its brand new? Could it be because its a cat6 instead of cat5?

Okay i check online to see if ethernet cable works or not and it tells me to type cmd then type inconfigure.


All I see is a bunch of Media disconnected.


I then went to network connections while the ethernet is connected to the router and all it does is it looks like searching for a signal but thats all it does. I then clicked diagnose and after all that i get this message


Local Area Connection doesn't have a valid ip configuration. Same message for media disconnected and this for both routers when connecting the cat6 ethernet cable to it...