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PLP1200 Dropping LAN & Internet Connection
Bought these about 3 weeks ago to replace my reliable but ageing and a little slow Western Digital Livewire Powerline Hubs (200 Mpbs). Never had any trouble with the WD Livewires, just wanted somethi...
According to the PLP1200 installation guide, the device will go into power saving mode if it detects no activity on the Ethernet interface for 10 minutes. The thing is that the Power LED color should change to amber when this happens.
I would suggest that you try two things:
- Try using a different Ethernet cables between your PC and the PLP1200, and your other PLP1200 and the router.
- Go into the Advanced settings for the Ethernet interfaces on your Asus and disable any power saving features.
Thanks for the suggestions Ether.
I have tried swapping the cables already.
At the moment Windows 10 is set to Maximum in the Power Settings so it doesn't enter sleep or hibernate anyway. I have however just changed the LAN adapter settings to un-check the "Allow the device to sleep..." option just to see if it will make any difference. I suspect it won't as the adapters were not causing any issue when used with the WD Livewire powerline adapters. Appreciate your reply though :-)
Having had a look at other forum posts it looks like we are waiting on Netgear updating their general Powerline adapter configuration software to make it compatible with the PLP1200's. Hopefully that will let us disable the sleep mode on the devices completely.