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ggerstner
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Apr 15, 2019

PLP2000 Distance/connection limitations

Good Afternoon   I am considering a PLP2000 for our property, and have a question about distance limitations   We have two houses, the main and a guest house Each house has it's own power s...
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plemans
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 15, 2019

Theoretically? maybe. 

In practice? I'm betting no.

Reason is this. Powerline tends to be sensitive to any type of influence. Even arc fault/gfci circuit tend to degrade or make connections degrade. Going from an in house circuit--->mains power-->in house circuit is going to have quite a bit of interference. Add in the problem of distance (max distance is usually 200-300 meters) and even if you did get a signal, I'm doubting it'd be usable. 

I've never tried it so I can only go off my experience in dealing with powerline.