Still looks great on my end.   ... View more

Hey Philip, missed this -- yes, using ethernet on a problem laptop worked just fine and the time of issue. So I have been doing work on this and narrowed it down.   Laptops cannot connected because instead of obtaining a new address via a DHCP DISCOVER process, it keeps trying to revalidate -- ithe old (Walnut) IP, likely sensing it's connected to the old network, which is true -- because of our VPN mesh, the old gateway is reachable, and the laptop does not give up it's non-working IP without a reboot.   Currently, I'm focusing on Apple's use of Simple DNA: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6059   ... View more

Pin one was was bad making the required "pair 2" invalid. So I swapped the orange pair with the unused brown pair at the patch panel and AP jack. The connection is now powered and functioning at 100Mbps, which is better than at 0 Mbps 🙂 ... View more