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Powerline Carrier - do you have to have utility (ie: 120V) power present for PL1200 to work?
I'm trying to get my wifi over to a remote shop that has a separate subpanel serving it from the main house. The goal is to set up a smart security/camera system that relies on wifi and hard ethernet...
The PL1200 needs power to work, so if your utility power is cut off, and you cannot power the PL1200 through UPS, they will not work.
In this case running ethernet cable would be your solution
With regards to the UPS, I would hazard a guess (as I don't know) that there would be enough electronics within the unit to stop powerline adapters working correctly
I hope this helps
Thanks for the reply. Can I ask why is it that the PL1200 needs to see 120V power if the ethernet cable plugged into it is "live" having come from a router plugged into a UPS.....both on the sending and receiving end?
With respect to the UPS and a power line adapter, what exactly is it with power strips, suppressors, a UPS, etc that keeps the data signal from flowing? is there a certain electronic component that's keeping it from working?
With respect to the power being required, trying to understand whether the data flow over the house wiring just needs to see the copper wire or if it needs the current flowing thru it and the data is being transmitted as sort of a carrier signal type event. I guess the only way to find out if the adapters will work plugged into a UPS is try it out. Was hoping to avoid that, but will try it out and report back for others who may be trying to do the same thing....
running an ethernet cable would be great, but problem is I'd have to dig a ditch across a hard gravel/dirt driveway bed and that's too much $$. Was thinking of trying a wi-fi extender to try and capture the house wife signal and redistribute out in the garage, but am being told this is tricky for static devices like IP cameras. All this technology seems to be more of a pain than anything, but will be glad when I finally get this to work....if I can. Thanks