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PL-1000 constantly dropping connection
Since December 2018 I have had a Powerline network in my home. It consists of one adapter connected to the router, one to a Virigin V6 box, one to a Raspberry Pi, and one to my laptop. It has always ...
Hello,
Did you have any luck fixing this problem? We recently lost use of our two multiport powerline adapters xav1004 and xav5004. Strangely the 4-port elements of our network stopped working for no obvious reason, but we can still connect using the single port devices that came in the same box as the original items above. I think we are going to end up with an ethernet switch, some of them seem to be EoP compatible. Hope your problem is solved?
Hi there!
It just so happens that I managed to fix the problem a few days ago. Instead of putting 3 devices to one power line adapter connected to the router, I set up two different networks in the house. I have two powerline adapters connected to the router, one networked to our TV and one to my computer. I haven't noticed any drops for these past few days, and as it would normally happen every few minutes, I'm pretty sure the problem is fixed.
Hope this helps!
It just so happens that I managed to fix the problem a few days ago. Instead of putting 3 devices to one power line adapter connected to the router, I set up two different networks in the house. I have two powerline adapters connected to the router, one networked to our TV and one to my computer. I haven't noticed any drops for these past few days, and as it would normally happen every few minutes, I'm pretty sure the problem is fixed.
Hope this helps!
Hi Daniel,
Sorry for slack reply, the initial email wasn't sent and I haven't been back in here since.
I am glad you found a way around the problem, I haven't been able to do that because we only have one electric circuit in the house. Our single eop connection devices are working, it just involves changing cables over, how very last century.
I think the multi-port things just decided they didn't want to work with the nbn in the neighbourhood, although we hadn't changed anything internally.
We are planning to spend some money on some new splitter things.
Thanks for your reply.
S.
Hi,
We don't have two elelctric circuits in our house either. I meant that I connected two networks of powerline via the same circuit, the networks are seperated using the security key feature. The issue was that the one powerline adaptor connected to the router was being overloaded, so changing things about to ensure that the powerline networks are only 1:1 resolved this issue and has been working to this day.
Here's a diagram I drew of how it works just in case I'm still unclear:
http://prntscr.com/oxsro2Thanks, Daniel.