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Powerline and Gigabit
Hi I was helping someone try to set up a 3rd powerline with a new Windows 7 PC that has a Gigabit LAN adapter The scenario is that he already had the twin set (don't know the exact models) and one...
No gigabit is not incompatible, you just won't get gigabit speed transfers.
The first thing you need to do is verify that he has a powerline connection - move the gigabit equipped PC to the location of the other PC and connect it in place of that PC - see if it works, if it doesn't you possibly have a problem with the PC itself or the cable.
Powerline networking is very sensitive to interference within the environment, and will sometimes fail to connect ot will connect and not pass data at a reasonable speed.
The 169.254.x.x addresses are what are known as APIPA addresses - automatic private ip addresses - and are the result of a PC trying to get an address by DHCP and failing to get a response from the DHCP server, no connection is one common cause.
The first thing you need to do is verify that he has a powerline connection - move the gigabit equipped PC to the location of the other PC and connect it in place of that PC - see if it works, if it doesn't you possibly have a problem with the PC itself or the cable.
Powerline networking is very sensitive to interference within the environment, and will sometimes fail to connect ot will connect and not pass data at a reasonable speed.
The 169.254.x.x addresses are what are known as APIPA addresses - automatic private ip addresses - and are the result of a PC trying to get an address by DHCP and failing to get a response from the DHCP server, no connection is one common cause.