I have no idea what to do about a few of them. I cant access them at all.
you have to wait for them.
they can be slow to startup.
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A do you have an ip scanner program ?
Angry ip or advanced ip scanner work with windows.
plug in only 1 machine scan the network do this every 5 minutes until it shows up.
once it shows up remove it. you know you have a good machine and a good cable. put the good mach in the good pile
test every machine 1 at a time on the good cable.
if every machine signs on to the one known good cables you have bad cables.----very common and will drive you nuts unless you do what I say.
if 11 machines sign on to the one known good cable you have some bad machines.
lastly once you know the above the third issue can be a switch with bad ports.
I know it sucks to test this with 16 ports and 16 machines and 16 cables. lots of combos.
btw the laptop never connects to the sp20 it should connect to the switch.
modem--router------switch -------- devices of all kinds such as a printer, a few sp20's , a few pc's the laptop
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