Powerline 1000

[Donnie57]

Can you connect a Netgear Powerline 1000 to a Netgear ProSafe Gigabit Switch instead of your router?  My ports on my router are completely full...

[plemans]

yes you can go Router-->switch-->powerline-->powerline.  I've done it before and it works great. 

[plemans]

Might get more responses too if you post in the powerline forum. 

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Powerline-Networking/bd-p/home-powerline

[Donnie57]

Thank you for your response!  Does the Switch with the Powerline 1000 have to be in close proximity of the Router?  My router is in a bedroom closet and the switch is across the house plugged into an ethernet port in my office.

[plemans]

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@Donnie57 wrote:

Thank you for your response!  Does the Switch with the Powerline 1000 have to be in close proximity of the Router?  My router is in a bedroom closet and the switch is across the house plugged into an ethernet port in my office.

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the powerline just needs ethernet access to the router/switch. Doesn't matter if its going through a switch to get there. I've even ran 

router-->switch-->switch-->powerline-->powerline-->switch.  It ran fine.