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PL1200 locked at 10MPBS
Rather than revive an old thread, I thought it best to start a new one (old one was two years old) I bought 4 EOP devices all at the same time. They were all brand new, in a sealed box. There was a pair of PL1010's and a pair of PL1200's. I plugged all of them into outlets in the same room of a brand new house. All of the devices booted fine, they all had the green LED's where they should be so plugged my cable modem into one of the PL1200's and tried to test the speed between the other three devices. All three of them gave me about 9Mbps. (Direct to cable modem I get 110+). So I took a few to another room and tried them there, still the same speed. I took them to where I was sure it was on a seperate run (circuit) and tested there, same. I downloaded the Genie app because I also have a Nighthawk R7000 wireless router and I like the network map feature. Well, to my surprise, it could also map my wireless, or hardwired connections as well as all of my powerline adapters. COOL! now it seemed to take quite a bit of time but it finally showed my PL1010's and then showed 2 "unknown" devices. Now clicking on the PL1010's, it gave me their connection speed at some absurd numbers, like 500 to 700mbps, and I was elated. However it only showed my PL1200's connecting at 10Mbps. Now I've gone through some troubleshooting and right now, I have the PL1010's connected to a network switch and they are working famously. I can get between 80 and 98 Mbps and I am thrilled. However, no matter what I do, no matter what the configuration, even just plugging in the 2 PL1200's and even setting securtity or not, and even though their pick a plug light has always been green, I will never see anything but 10Mbps's listed in the Genie app, and I will never get more than 9.7Mbps out of those adapters. Do I just have defective equipment or is there some other configuration tool that I could use to try to help? It almost seems like the port is locked at 10Mbps and I really don't think that would be possible in such a small device, unless there were some dipswitches inside the device I could check? I bought them from an ebay store that sells this stuff all the time and has a 100% rating. Is it possible I just got a lemon or am I missing something? Any thoughts? Ideas? Thank you in advance!