A little while ago I use to have my Wii U connected by an ethernet cable by a usb-ethernet adapter. Recently, I switched bedrooms in the house and it required a longer ethernet cable. Since then though, I can't connect to the internet at all.
I know it seems like the cable is at fault, but it works perfectly on other devices such as my laptop. Whenever I try to select a Wired connection, it tells me to refer to the adapter manuel and connect. It goes to "preparing" then comes up to say "please connect the adapter to a usb port".
It doesn't give me an error code at all, so it's like if the Wii U doesn't know the adapter is there. So today I went and bought another adapter and same thing, "please connect it to a usb port".
I tried resetting the router, unplugging my Wii U and then connecting everything BEFORE turning it back on. I looked up on google and youtube, but can't find a solution that works. It seems like I'm missing something really simple but for the life of me I can't think anything. Everything is brand new so it should work.
Any possible solutions I may have missed? Sorry if this has been discussed to death but I can't find anything on google.