Multiple Powerline Adapters

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g7ivp wrote:

 

I thought I'd explained that I already have a pair of PL1000's in use on my mains electricity wiring taking the signal from my modem to my router's WAN side, I'll call that cir[c]uit one.

 

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Really? I've never seen that arrangement mentioned before. That's why I asked.

I didn't think that it would work. It isn't something I have seen in the Netgear documentation on Powerline devices. Nice idea if it works.

The usual requirement is to have one (host) plug connected to the router and other (guest) plugs out on the local network.

As it is, your plugs are "upwind" of your local network, before the DHCP server. (That's why I am surprised that it works.)

I could understand it if the modem was doing the router role and the guest plug was feeding a router in access point mode. But not knowing anything about the modem and the configuration of the rest of your network it is hard to tell.

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As both sets of PL1000's will be using the same electrical mains wiring . Will they get confused and all talk to each other, creating on big LAN which I do not want, or can they be configured as two seperate ciruits which is what I do want?

 

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Given that this is an atypical topography, it is hard to know what will happen, but if you use the Linksys as the host for a separate network – in other words, two plugs connected to it as guest and host – you should be safe.

The usual problems is that people want a single network and end up with two because they have not worked out out how to combine them.