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surfish95747
Novice
Jan 11, 2012

Trouble connecting router to Powerline HELP!

Here is how we currently have our powerlines set up. We have a modem from Comcast with a Frys brand N router hooked into the modem. Next we have a base powerline XAV2501 plugged into the wall and the ...
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dickie
Novice
Jun 20, 2012
SoCalScott wrote:

I know the Powerline adapters are working properly because I can connect my laptop directly to Powerline 2 and it works perfectly. When I connect a router to the second Powerline adapter, it doesn't work.

Suggestions? Help?

Thanks!


mmm... shot in the dark, but disable any SPI/firewall on that R2. I suspect my Time capsule / AFP problem was down to something in the firewall on my router/switch dropping the packets (I think the powerline may do some switcheroo with the MAC addresses and the firewall thinks its a man-in-the-middle attack). Once I moved it to go through a different, non-firewalled switch, it all works fine..

After that connect a laptop into an ethernet port and R2 , and just see if you can ping R1 at all. In theory it should ARP and you may find that you can see R1 , but R2 will be inaccesible (I had this with another Netgear router - it didnt mind acting as an AP, but you couldn't take to it directly)/