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XAVP1000 powerline stopped
Powerline connectivity from WNXR2000 and XAVP1000 had been working just fine for many months, connecting to a ZyXEL PLA401v3. An older ZyXEL powerline modem I had seemed never to work reliably, but t...
Mon 29 Apr 2013
A week later now, and I can reply to my own query. The problem turned out clearly not to lie in the XAVP1000. Following a few searches at eBay, I bought a Cisco PLE300, thinking (naively) it would be a replacement for the XAVP1000. When it arrived, I eventually figured out the unit is the "client" end, so replaces the ZyXEL PLA401v3. Indeed, that fixed the problem. It was the ZyXEL adapter that had failed. Once the "new" Cisco was plugged in as adapter, the NetGear power supply and router powerline worked just fine.
A week later now, and I can reply to my own query. The problem turned out clearly not to lie in the XAVP1000. Following a few searches at eBay, I bought a Cisco PLE300, thinking (naively) it would be a replacement for the XAVP1000. When it arrived, I eventually figured out the unit is the "client" end, so replaces the ZyXEL PLA401v3. Indeed, that fixed the problem. It was the ZyXEL adapter that had failed. Once the "new" Cisco was plugged in as adapter, the NetGear power supply and router powerline worked just fine.