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I haven't used Apple gear very much, though I think your problem might be a bad cable. Maybe something like heat or cold in the wire broke a connection at one end of it. If you swap out the port on the router instead of restarting everything, maybe that would help? On paper, changing the LAN ports could fix this, but most probably it's just a faulty cable.
I put in a new cat8 ethernet cable and used a different plug. It looks like everything works right now, thanks for asking!
It works well, but you should avoid buying anything else except Cat5e or Cat6a. Maybe just go for a normal Cat6 if it's cheaper than Cat5e. A lot of cables are fakes. The Cat8 ones in particular are often fakes and only used in big data centers that need 40mbps speeds. They cost way too much. In the best case, you overpaid for the cable. Fakes mostly work but they cause random failures sometimes, or make machines work when they shouldn't. The real deal needs pure copper wire with a size of 22 to 24. Any thin or flat cable doesn't meet those standards to be a true ethernet cable. The "CAT" names aren't official and vendors can just call them whatever they want.
Yes, my old ethernet cable used to be CAT7, and I never had any issues before. I was worried that my modem, router, or appleTV might not work right, but everything has been working fine so far. Thanks so much for answering me!