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PLP2000 Firmware, monitoring, how many PLP2000
I have a set of the PLP2000. One in the basment connected to my router and one on the third floor about 70 plus feet away. The 3 lights stay solid and when I connect my laptop to the one upstairs i...
Hello,
I've got a similar problem.
When I plug the 4th CPL ( Model PLP2000 ) on my infra, I've got a signifant decrease of the bandwith and the speed light becomes red on all CPLs. I would like to try to find where is the bottleneck on my infra ( and try to manage them with a software utility - security, etc... ). For Information : I've got 6 CPLs PLP2000 on my installation.
I would like to known if exists a software utility like "Netgear Powerline utility" for CPL model PLP2000 ?
If you have some suggestions to help me to identify where is this bottleneck, I would be interested.
Thanks for your answer.
Chris_2018 wrote:
When I plug the 4th CPL ( Model PLP2000 ) on my infra
What does that mean? What is your "infra"?
Have you added these plugs to a single network, with just one feeding off the router?
Do you see the same behaviour wherever you plug in the fourth plug?
If it is just one plug out of the six that creates this problem, maybe the plug is defective. Have you tried resetting it?
Hello
Thanks for your answer and your help.
My infra is just a common electrical installation of a house built in year 2006 in France.
- 1 CPL is in my Garage connected to my Freebox version 5 and to the principal electrical panel fo my house - This CPL is always power on - the freebox is configured as a routeur
- Ground floor I've got 3 CPLs
- 2nd floor 1 CPL in a 1st bedroom and another one in a 2nd bedroom
I've tried different tests
I've done a reset of all CPLs
I've done the association of all 5 CPLs to the one in the garage.
Then when I power on the 2nd CPL = ok
When I power a 3rd one = ok
a 4th one = ok
a 5th one = that depends but often the light of the bandwith becomes red for all CPLs and stays like that
a 6th one = ko light becomes red and stays like that until another CPLs enter in sleeping mode
I've tried with different sequences in the power on of the CPLs and I obtain always the same result.
When the 5th one is power on the bandwith of the network becomes bad and when the 6th one is power on the bandwith is bad and stays like that.
The problem doesn't depend of the position of CPLs but depends of the number of CPLs power on and active at the same time.
Do you have others tests we can try to identify where is the problem and to improve the situation ?Hello,
I've done a new test.
All CPLs ( 6 ones) connected in the same room directly on the electrical plugs of the wall ( no electrical multi plugs ). All these elecrical plugs are connected to the same lign in my electrical principal panel.
When I connect the 5th CPL, then the light of bandwith becomes .... red on all CPLs.
No software utility to identify where is the bottleneck. No new firmware. Nothing to identify if CPLs run correctly.
So, please give me a solution to solve this limitation of your materials.
Chris_2018 wrote:
So, please give me a solution to solve this limitation of your materials.You should know that this community is essentially a user-to-user venue with some input from a small band of Netgear techies.
Most of the answers come from fellow users who have no connection with Netgear. They just have a lot of collective experience and are familiar with the sort of problems that turn up here.
If you want "official" support then you should go through the right channels.
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Unfortunately, I have yet to see any sign here of a Netgear expert on Powerline stuff. They certainly haven't chimed in on this discussion.