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PLP1000 mixed lights
I have 3 PLP1000 powerline adapters connected and they all seem to have different coloured lights.
In my loft room where my main socket for Internet is located has a plug that has a green light. This is where my router is.
I have another downstairs in the front room that is showing as red.
My last is in my shed that has power running down to it thats at the end of my garden thats roughly 20 M long and is ocassionly amber or red.
I can run speedtest.net on all of these and get the full 70Mbps on all these plugs that is the max for my internet connection and latency seems really good. The issue im having is that I stream 1080p from plex in my shed to my front room and it will buffer a regular basis when it never used to form the same machine that was in my loft.
what do the colour lights mean in relation to running 3 of these adapters. is it the max speed across all of them ?
Do these adapter actully support AV2 which the specs page does not mention at all ?
Do they support mimo and would this make a difference with multiple adapters ?
Does adding more adapters decrease speeds.
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There's a manual that tells you what the led's are. And there's more than 1 led on them so specifics help us more than "there's a red/amber light on it". You can find the manual here that goes over what each led is and what they mean:
https://www.netgear.com/support/product/PLP1000.aspx
Also its only compatible with HomePlug AV2.0 but can co-exist with HomePlug 1.0 and is backwards compatible to HomePlug AV1.0.
https://kb.netgear.com/31521/PLP1000-FAQ-s
something else to keep in mind with powerline. Is many things influence the speed/interference.
These include:
Distance. An outlet could be right next to each other but on different circuits so the run is much further.
old/bad wiring
poorly grounded wiring
electronics going bad/poorly made
cell phone chargers
high draw appliances
arc fault circuits
GFCI outlets
surge protectors.
I understand the light means differnt speeds but what im asking is how do they work it out as mine is red but I get 70Mbps across it which seems to be wrong.
Also Im assuming with two adapaters its just the speeds between the 2 that determines the colour but i have 3 how does it calculate it then ?
If i have 3 adapters and one is in a bad socket does it turn the other 2 red and will it decrease their speeds ? Can i get better performance by removing it ?
jeffsmith82 wrote:I understand the light means differnt speeds but what im asking is how do they work it out as mine is red but I get 70Mbps across it which seems to be wrong.---Red just means its detecting a bad connection. the connection strength can change but its saying its not the best. It could do full 70mbps and then later only pull 20mbps.
Also Im assuming with two adapaters its just the speeds between the 2 that determines the colour but i have 3 how does it calculate it then ?---not sure exactly.
If i have 3 adapters and one is in a bad socket does it turn the other 2 red and will it decrease their speeds ? Can i get better performance by removing it ?---try it. disconnect one and see if the problem goes away. mabye there's interference on 1 and its causing the issues with others.
