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Aspirant

Jul 20, 2011

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...

neil40

Aspirant

Jul 20, 2011

jmizoguchi wrote:
any NIC will auto negotiate the speed so either it negotiates at 100base-t or like you did with changing the speed should have helped.

I see many post on devices does not get IP behind the power line.

I would try static IP on win7 pc since you are getting 169 as per detail description of APIPA.

jmizoguchi wrote:
any NIC will auto negotiate the speed so either it negotiates at 100base-t or like you did with changing the speed should have helped. I see many post on devices does not get IP behind the power line. I would try static IP on win7 pc since you are getting 169 as per detail description of APIPA.

Even with a fixed IP it didn't see the Internet etc, just showed a yellow triangle on the network graph symbol in the taskbar