Not My Network! Powerline/Homeplug Help!

L0stpr0phet

L0stpr0phet

L0stpr0phet

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Hi All,

Just moved to a new terraced house in Stoke and managed to get Virgin 100Mb installed, amazing upload/download speeds when lounge pc/server wired direct to the hub....ok all good so far...

Just gone to set the study pc up using a set of Develo powerline/homeplugs and come across something pretty scary...
The machine is connecting to someone elses network i presume on my street!!
How is this possible? I thought the powerline devices only worked on your own ringmain/fuse/distribution box??

I've confirmed it by using just the 1 homeplug into any power socket in my house and connecting the network cable to my laptop or pc. The other adapter i would use to connect to my own router is unplugged form the wall!

If i do a quick look on the network devices i can see various computer/laptop/imac/media devices/TV's on the network. Also a netgear router (which is assinging me an IP address) and a Fritz!box.
I have full internet access (seems to be o2) and access to the network etc.

Any idea how/why this is happening?
I wouldnt expect it to be my two direct neighbours as they dont seem the type to be running such a setup. The Fritz!box appears to be setup with some german share names too. I could go knocking on doors looking for anyone speaking german but i'd rather not until i know whats going on!

Any help/advise would be much appreciated!....and if it happens to be your network sorry!! lol
 
Haha yeh i bet most people wouldnt complain about free internet but its an adsl line getting about 7Mb and id much rather use my own 100Mb cable.....

The main issue is that the netgear seems to be taking priority over my own dhcp server and i dont want to plug my own powerlines into my network in case there machines start picking up my network. I guess i could turn off dhcp and try static IPs but id rather get to the bottom of this. I hope there not using my electric somehow or vise versa!

No printer on the network im afraid.
 
The three electricity phases are normally sequenced down a street. This means that the people on the same phase (and the only ones you could potentially be able to connect to) would normally be three doors away in each direction.

I’m surprised that you are able to connect to another network in the way you describe. It can be hard enough to get a decent connection within the same house. I guess with a terrace the distances involved could be fairly short.

Turning (powerline) encryption on should fix your problem.
 
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I guess the lesson here is always encrypt your powerline adapters.

On the plus side you now have a backup ISP if Virgin goes down. ;).
 
Thanks guys, enabled encryption using the Devolo software from the website worked a treat, i also updated the firmware on the adapters...accidentally it also upgrade the other persons adapters as i hadn't realised it would scan the network and upgrade them all...wooops! (before i enabled encryption)

Throughput is showing as 195Mbps to my other adapter so all working great :)
Still odd how the adapter are working between houses but i can live with that :)
 
L0stpr0phet said:
Thanks guys, enabled encryption using the Devolo software from the website worked a treat, i also updated the firmware on the adapters...accidentally it also upgrade the other persons adapters as i hadn't realised it would scan the network and upgrade them all...wooops! (before i enabled encryption)

Throughput is showing as 195Mbps to my other adapter so all working great :)
Still odd how the adapter are working between houses but i can live with that :)
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Good news.. You should have seen if you could access any shares.

Which Devolo adaptors did you purchase?
 
They are Devolo dLan 200 AVplus SE II had them for a couple years now and can't fault the performance, streams all my HD content in XBMC from the server downstairs perfect :)
 
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