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Powerline compability question

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xellos2099alpha

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I got some question here. A few years ago my family bought the Netgear Xe103 85mpbs powerline kit to connect between top floor and bottom floor of a town house and it work well.Today we want to add netowrk to the living room so I went out and bought a new netgear NETGEAR - Powerline AV 200.

I read about it and it is "suppose" to be compalable with Xe 103. However when I plug it in the living room there is no Ethernet signal. So I went to top floor where the router is connect to xe103 and change it to av 200. So now the living room have signal but the bottom floor doesn't have signal. Are they suppose to work with each other? If so, how and if not what would be the cheapest solution for me?
 
Its possible your house mains is fed by more than one transformer.
The network signal wont pass through a transformer.
 
Try putting all of the powerline adapters in the same room, all different sockets of course. If they don't work in THAT configuration then you know (1) the adapters are not compatible or (2) there is some set up step missed.

My house has one main electrical box that spit out two 120V circuits that power the main and upper floors. One of those circuits (or maybe its connected directly to the electrical meter?) then goes to the basement and I think is distributed along the entire basement. End result? I have three zones in the house that if any powerline connection crosses from one zone to another, my top speed is 5-10Mbps with frequent dropouts.

My guess is you have a similar issue. Time to think about running ethernet to key rooms in the house. That's what we're going to do.
 
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