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Powerline 2000 connectivity issues with Haywood pool controller
My pool builder was having trouble getting an external atennae to connect with our wifi. Connection wouldn't hold. He asked our pool equipment supplier for help and they suggested these Netgear ...
After several conversations with you and conversations with my pool builder, we have ginally fixed this problem. My pool builder was not aware that I would have problems with the Powerlines if they were not on the same circuit. What we finally did was move the Powerline device to my utility room which is the closet room to the pool controller and we plugged the Powerline into that circuit, same circuit as the ohter one. Then we drillled a hole through the wall and ran a cable from that Powerline directly into my pool controller. Now my problem is finally fixed.
Thank you for your consult and good advice.
Sorry, I have confused issues. I only have a modem today that enables me to be wireless with most things. The controller is all hardwired into electrical.
The controller can pair with a mobile app that would allow me to change things in my pool like lighting, pool heater, etc. Today the mobile app won't connect to the controller. We tried the powerlines to get the connection between my controller and my modem but that doesn't work.
so you need a wireless extender where the controller is. And the extender has to have an ethernet jack. Netgear has many of these that you could try. Monoprice also has a cheap one, I think its product 16135. runs around $12 for just a super basic wireless n devices that you can setup with multiple modes. read the Q&A.
Still brings up the question of distance. To test it, take your phone into the area where the controller is and see if you can get a wireless signal from your main modem/router.
Following your suggestion, I checked my connectivity between my phone and my wireless network while standing in front of my controller and it seems pretty strong.
You mentioned I needed to have an ethernet jack on the wireless extender. Is the ethernet jack necessary so I can plug my controller into that?
I have an electrical outlet inside a weather proof box next to the controller. Would the wireless extender plug into that outlet and then plug into my controller? Trying to find a wireless extender about the size of the powerline which might fit inside that same box.
At one time I had an external antennae that was supplied by the pool equipment builder, but it didn't seem to get a signal very well. If I went back to that and plugged a wireless extender inside my house on the opposite side of the wall near the antennae, would I get the same result we are trying to achieve?
Its very possible that the extender in the house with hooking the wireless antenna back to the controller might works. Or the extender connected via ethernet jack might works. Its one of those things you're going to have to play with to see what works.
After several conversations with you and conversations with my pool builder, we have ginally fixed this problem. My pool builder was not aware that I would have problems with the Powerlines if they were not on the same circuit. What we finally did was move the Powerline device to my utility room which is the closet room to the pool controller and we plugged the Powerline into that circuit, same circuit as the ohter one. Then we drillled a hole through the wall and ran a cable from that Powerline directly into my pool controller. Now my problem is finally fixed.
Thank you for your consult and good advice.