Sir, or mam, you’ve made me feel like a fool, in a good way. I forgot I installed a 16 Port TP-Link Smart Managed switch this past weekend… so found the device that is causing confusion on the network. No clue why I did such minimal troubleshooting. Sorry if my replies come across as crass. I should’ve put more thought into my setup.
If you don’t mind me picking your brain, in regard to this managed router, would you place it as close to the main router as possible, or doesn’t matter?
The current setup is Modem to Mesh Router System to Slate (hardwire) to Unmanaged Switch to Slate (hardwired) to new, Managed Switch.
I think I answered my own question, but my hope is to have all three routers able to share printers, network drives, and my NAS across the entire network.
Dude, thank you so much for putting in a bit of thought and time to put some scope to my issue. Wasn’t exactly what you described, but provided a different perspective for me to analyze the Slate issue.
Thanks man!!!