Did you setup the powerline adaptors on the same circuit first and get them working?
would it not be a better solution to buy a smaller house?
Two popular ways of accessing the INTERNET are via WiFi (wireless connectivity) and an ethernet (CAT5/6 cable).
The INTERNET is received into your house/building in many different forms but is ultimately made available to you through a device known as a router. The router usually provides you with WiFi and should have a few ethernet ports on the back. A service provider router is usually cheap shite.
The WiFi signal can be impeded by many things. Distance, walls with foil-backed insulation/plaster boards, other competing WiFi networks.
This is the gap in the market the power line adapter attempts to fill.
It’s a simple concept and an effective way to copy and paste your WiFi signal to rooms on the same wiring circuit as your router.
One lad does all the work. The ‘master’ sits beside the router and takes an ethernet cable from the back of the router into its own ethernet port. As the master is a plug, it is plugged into the electrical wiring in your home… the few bits inside essentially take the INTERNET and run it all over your electrical wiring circuit (the other rooms in your home)
The slaves are the lads you plug into an electric socket in your home to pull the INTERNET out of the wall and make it available as WiFi (and some higher spec models such as the AV600 have ethernet ports as well).
As a general rule of thumb, ethernet cable connected devices enjoy higher speeds than WiFi connected devices. This is especially true if you are at the lower end of the broadband Mbps league table.
Good day to you.
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Which I think Flatty is unfortunately.
If the powerlines don’t work I can’t see the mesh system being much better.
We’ll step you through setting up the powerlines later on @flattythehurdler if your doing nothing.
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I know there is a bit of a running joke on LG tvs but just to put a bit more meat on the bone, my Panasonic TV packed it in a few months back. I replaced it but also dropped it into a shop to see if it was fully dead. It was. But I had an interesting conversation with the owner of the shop which led me to ask him what brand he sees coming in his door the most. No hesitation, LGs was the answer.
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Seems to be the feedback alright from others alright about LG TV’s. Thanks chief, hope the holidays went well for you and yours.
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They work via WiFi once on the same network
By God, read online about the failing LG but did not believe it fully, as all brands pay reviewers some way or another, but Samsung is king
And to you kind sir.
Even if I did, how can they possibly talk to each other via the electrical cables in the house, if different areas in the house are on different circuits??
Google WiFi works. You can add as many as you like then
Modern technology Flatty. The old ones, years ago, used not work very well over multiple circuits. So that old conception is still there. The newer ones do work.
The older ones didn’t work in my workshop, 100 yds from the house and on a different circuit. The new AV600s do.
How though? They can’t possibly be using the cabling.
In the old analogue days it used be called modulation. Sending hundreds of different telephone calls down the one telephone cable running past your house on the road. It’s digital now but the same principle.
The problem was isolating it from the mains frequency which is always glitchy and noisy. It works, that’s all you need worry about.
Yes, but if the circuits are separate, how can it possibly work?
There’re not separate. They are connected through MCBs in your fuse box. Or distribution unit as they now call it.
Ah right. Why are they connected? Does that not defeat the object? I had presumed that the main power supply was split into separate cable runs for each circuit, which fed separately back. In parallel rather than in series, if you see what I mean.
have you got multiple fuse boxes?
No one fuse box but a good few circuits