Zorin 17 Pro fresh install - barely working ethernet

Hi all. I've just installed Zorin 17 Pro and my ethernet connection keeps trying to connect and failing. Rarely it manages to do it but then drops off after a bit. My wifi is working better since I changed the automatic DNS to 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4. Applied the same to the wired connection, but no improvement. The wifi connection works better when I have the wired one turned off.

I was having the same problem with Zorin 16 Pro and Ubuntu 24.04 before that. However my Windows 11 machine works fine with both wireless and wired connections. I should add that both machines ethernet cables are connected to this network splitter adapter (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CHJD52LH?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1), but since the Windows machine works ok with it, I assume it might be a problem with the Linux distros configuration. Any help at all would be appreciated.

sudo lshw -c network returns the following:

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: enp1s0
version: 05
serial: 58:47:ca:72:09:14
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=6.5.0-41-generic duplex=full firmware=rtl8125b-2_0.0.2 07/13/20 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:37 ioport:f000(size=256) memory:dcc00000-dcc0ffff memory:dcc10000-dcc13fff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlp2s0
version: 1a
serial: 10:a5:1d:a2:ff:b2
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=6.5.0-41-generic firmware=83.e8f84e98.0 ty-a0-gf-a0-83.uc ip=192.168.1.249 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:58 memory:dcb00000-dcb03fff

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