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PLP1200S extremely slow
I have 2 PLP1200S on different rooms, they are green on pickk a plug led every now and then i See a red but it happens every couple of minutes and for less than a second, speed is always 25~30 Mbps i...
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Okay well my question isn't EXACTLY this but no sense making another thread on the subject since it's close enough. I've recently purchased some 1200 devices as well and the experience so far has been, to put it politely as I can, a $#%#$ nightmare.
First of all- as soon as I plug in 2 devices- one upstairs and one in the basement (2 story home + basement), it craters my ENTIRE internet connection. I can go from 120down and 30 up to a speedtest that looks like a T-Rex with an overbite when the PL routers are plugged in. Unplug the powerline routers and it's fine again.
Not only is the connection to the devices on that basement router just... I mean... indescribably slow- upstairs, downstairs... upstairs... downstairs... trying to troubleshoot the router, the 1200s... my router again... try a different setting. Ugh. Nothing. Yet all the LEDs show that there is a connection and all is green ie: good. There's nothing to tell me what the signal strength is... you basically just need to cross your fingers.
No way to verify connectivity. Oh good! I can hire an electrician to come over for 80 bucks and hour to figure out what the signal strength along my powerline between my upstairs and my downstairs is? Couldn't it just be an LED colour change between green / yellow / red depending on signal strength?
Very, VERY frustrated right now. Been **bleep**ing around with these POS dongles for 2 days now trying to get them to work on top of them LITERALLY crashing my internet connectivity.
First, you would do better to start a new discussion if you don't want your issue to get lost in the back of something that has been rattling on for a while.
Second, do some simple tests. Put the two plugs in the same room and see what connection speed you get.
The quality of the connection with powerline devices obviously depends on the power line. Noisy mains circuits will play havoc with the signal between two plugs.
You refer to powerline routers, what does that mean?
People don't usually refer to Powerline plugs as routers, so maybe you are doing something that I don't understand.
Okay. I'll start a new thread on the subject. I think I underestimated the capability of these powerline (whatever you want to call them). Powerline what.. devices? PLugins? Meh.
Before I do, I'll try plugging them in closer... and closer... and closer. But to be quite honest if the only distance you're able to cover with powerline reliably is a room- I can't begin to describe what a waste of money it is considering this home was built in 2008.
