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Troubleshooting NETGEAR's Powerline Products
Troubleshooting NETGEAR's Powerline Products
Powerline products work better when plugged into the wall without power strips, extension cords, surge protectors, or interruptible power supplies.
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rlweiner wrote: I'm using a pair of XAV2001s and a pair of XAV101s. They work fine as lon as there are only 2 adapters on the network. It doesn't matter which two -- both sets work. But as soon as I add plug a 2nd aparter into my router (this would be the 3rd one on the network) the entire network shuts down. I also start getting IP address conflict alerts from the computer connected to the first pair (it doesn't matter which model is connected first). I tried assigning static IP addresses to each adapter and to the computer complaining of IP conflicts and that got rid of the IP conflict messages but didn't fix the network shutdown problem. I used the config utility to set the same security password on each adapter but that didn't change anything. What should I try next?
It's not clear from your description exactly what you are doing but if you have two powerline adapters connected to the wired part of your network (ie the router) then you will be setting up a loop which can totally clag a network.