PLW1000 disconnecting and being very slow.

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So I have an extender at the router and one in my room connected to my pc. I went on a week long holiday and I come back to find that it is now barley working. There is now red lights on both of them and speed tests are getting below 1 mb/s. On a good day it is usually hitting 35+. Not only that but it will constantly disconnect and might work sometimes. I do have another just small wifi extender and that actuall seemed to help last time. I am just wanting to try get them back to the speed that they were once after purchasing them.

Thanks!

plemans · Answer

Powerline devices are sensitive to interference.

Many things can cause interference that might have changed while you're were gone.

This that can impact it:

electronics going bad

some cell phone chargers cause interference

high draw appliances.

so you can try putting the adapters on the same power circuit and seeing if they work. That's where they'd have the best connection. If they work fine on the same circuit, its probably something in your power system injecting noise/interfernce that's causing their connections to drop.

Ben__1 · Answer

Okay so I have brought the second extender down stairs and now they the Pick a plug for both of them is Saffron and on the google spped test reaching about 50 mb/ps. So does this mean it is the noise that is the problem?

plemans · Answer

more than likely something is adding interference then.&nbsp;

Ben__1 · Answer

Is there anything you would recommend ?

plemans · Answer

You can try troubleshooting to see whats causing it.&nbsp;I've went around and unplugged everything and then slowly added devices while testing speeds.&nbsp;You don't have to do it one at a time. You can unplug everything and plug in 3-5 devices at a time and then test. If it drops, its something from that group.&nbsp;

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PLW1000 disconnecting and being very slow.

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