powerline adapter stopped working

[anonymous-user]

I connected a powerline into a socket in the garage with very little expectation that it would work

But it did! Perfectly. For a week.

Then it suddenly stopped working - the network light isn't coming on

Have tried it in the house and it works perfectly and tried another one from the house that also failed in the garage

What could have happened in the week to knacker the job up and is it likely to be something I can easily fix?

[anonymous-user]

Not knowingly

What difference could doing so make?

[anonymous-user]

Nothing else plugged in / out in there - just the laptop and the adapter

Lights have been switched on / off a few times of course and the electric car charged every day, but that happened in the previous week too with no issue

In reality I am more surprised that it worked in the first place than that it failed, but it did and it is, therefore, disappointing that it stopped!

[anonymous-user]

the one from the garage works in every socket in the house

others from the house, that also work in the house, don't work in the garage

I have done the re pairing part, but no change...

I have no idea what the car charger does to the electrics - it is the same rating as an electric shower / oven, so it shouldn't be anything out of the ordinary

[anonymous-user]

malks222 said:

very strange, it sounds like its something to do with the electrical circuit more than the unit. if it works in the house and the other ones also dont work out there, is the internet signal getting out to the garage plus socket? but if the socket still works for power out in the garage, why would the signal not get there?

Exactly that.

When I first plugged it in, I was surprised that it worked - it is behind its own 'consumer unit' of sorts

But it did work and I was a happy bunny

Then it stopped working and it is worse having something taken away than not having had it at all!

[anonymous-user]

can't think of anything that changed between it working one evening and not working the next morning

nothing that hadn't happened the previous 6 nights anyway

might take the time to go round switching a few things off to see if that revives it

or might just make do with the radio only in the garage :-(

[anonymous-user]

Lo And behold today it works

Three different plugs working in house and garage....

How so I wonder?

And for how long?

[anonymous-user]

well today it isn't working....

I wonder if it could be to do with how wet the ground is? The cable to the garage is underground. I have no idea of how well / if at all it is ducted. Could the ground being wetter cause a reduction in the ability of the cable to carry the signal?

straws clutched and all that...

[anonymous-user]

We have various bits of TP Link powerline kit. This particular one is a TP-Link TL-WPA281 V3 AV200

These intermittent faults are always the most annoying aren't they?

I tend to agree that, for whatever reasons, the garage sockets are right at the edge of the performance capability of such a device.

Maybe I will discover the specific reason(s) behind it not working sometime. Maybe not.

In due course, the house will have a full rewire and the issue will be fixed properly at that point with a run of Cat 6 (or 7 given how soon I might get round to it)...

[anonymous-user]

CraigyMc said:

Total aside: Cat 7 is a dead duck.

After Cat6a, Cat 8 is the next popular standard. Cat 7 isn't a recognised standard for various boring industry compliance reasons.

the more you know

by the time I get round to it, we might be on to CAT 9... :-)