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cant get the powerline adapter to work in my out building
Heres the deal, I have an out building that is approximately 100 feet away from the house. I set up the inside unit to the router, and set up the other unit in my out building, It shows that there ...
OK, I just looked it up, The circuit panel in the out building is just a plain ole circuit breaker panel with a 70 amp main breaker and 20 amp sub breakers.
Ok, in your home your circuit breakers are all connected to the main switch, which is why powerline adapters can communicate across different circuits/phases. As you have another main switch in the outbuilding, with its own circuits/phases I think this is where the problem lies. By running extension leads you managed to keep all your units connected to circuits/phases of your main home, so this is why it worked.
Not sure there's a solution, certainly not for powerline. Have you considered a wi-fi booster / repeater?
clithes wrote:
Ok, in your home your circuit breakers are all connected to the main switch, which is why powerline adapters can communicate across different circuits/phases. As you have another main switch in the outbuilding, with its own circuits/phases I think this is where the problem lies.That pretty well sums it up, but it can be more complicated than that.
I also have a separate building with its own fuse box that feeds off the same incoming mains feed. But I can use Powerline plugs that sit on two different fuse boxes. However, the signal is not as good as it is with two plugs on the same box.
In other words, there don't seem to be any hard and fast rules for these things.
