I recently upgraded to gigabit fibre at home in the UK . To ensure i got the best speed possible to all my wire capable devices I decided to run Cat 6 caves [cables?] across the house (none are longer than 30m)
I have a vodafone home router which then has 1 Netgear Nighthawk EX7700 and a EX8000 running in AP mode (for Wifi extension and both have wired devices device plugged into it) and apple Time machine and then I have 4 GS305 /8 port managed switches connected across the house.
Everything is working fine and getting good speeds as I wanted but then our home alarm system had to be changed as I no longer have a PSTN line and it has to go via the fibre. I again wanted this hardwired as not wanting to share my wifi password with the alarm company. Due to the location they wanted to fit TP Link PA4010 UK power line extenders. They communicate with each other and are paired but then when I try to ping the router (when one of them is directly connected into the port) pings are intermittent but then if I put in an external address it will not respond. Also when pinging internal devices via the power line the latency is huge at 98ms. Then plugged the power line into one of the switches with the same result or even worse. I thought I read somewhere that power line adapters can have the same IP address as some routers? Tried pairing them both side by side and the pairing worked but then when moved other sockets no responses. Even tried disabling firewall temporarily on the Vodafone router
Have also tried other Devolo 500mpbs powerlines. (these have 2 ports on and when i connect the power line to a switch and then plug my laptop into the other port it works fine but then pair the other adapter and plug into that and again no response to internal or external pings etc)
Tried factory resetting both sets of powerlines, checked that I have no other power line adapters plugged in anywhere and had a look at all the switches and all appears ok. We have now had to move the Alarm system closer to one of the netgear switches and it's working fine but wanted to understand why the hell power line is now not working (the devolo's used to work before I hard wired the house but would not go above 300mbps hence why i went the route I have)
I have a vodafone home router which then has 1 Netgear Nighthawk EX7700 and a EX8000 running in AP mode (for Wifi extension and both have wired devices device plugged into it) and apple Time machine and then I have 4 GS305 /8 port managed switches connected across the house.
Everything is working fine and getting good speeds as I wanted but then our home alarm system had to be changed as I no longer have a PSTN line and it has to go via the fibre. I again wanted this hardwired as not wanting to share my wifi password with the alarm company. Due to the location they wanted to fit TP Link PA4010 UK power line extenders. They communicate with each other and are paired but then when I try to ping the router (when one of them is directly connected into the port) pings are intermittent but then if I put in an external address it will not respond. Also when pinging internal devices via the power line the latency is huge at 98ms. Then plugged the power line into one of the switches with the same result or even worse. I thought I read somewhere that power line adapters can have the same IP address as some routers? Tried pairing them both side by side and the pairing worked but then when moved other sockets no responses. Even tried disabling firewall temporarily on the Vodafone router
Have also tried other Devolo 500mpbs powerlines. (these have 2 ports on and when i connect the power line to a switch and then plug my laptop into the other port it works fine but then pair the other adapter and plug into that and again no response to internal or external pings etc)
Tried factory resetting both sets of powerlines, checked that I have no other power line adapters plugged in anywhere and had a look at all the switches and all appears ok. We have now had to move the Alarm system closer to one of the netgear switches and it's working fine but wanted to understand why the hell power line is now not working (the devolo's used to work before I hard wired the house but would not go above 300mbps hence why i went the route I have)