welp, turns out its a bad end, i think a wire is trying to pull out of the RJ45... there is a little local PC/prepaid cellphone store right by my house i might see if they will reterminate it for me...
as far as hardware goes, here is my plan...
WAP4400N access point
SD2005 switch
RVS4000 router
QNAP TS-239 Pro