Powerline Adapters work in Windows but not on OSX...

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Hey guys, was hoping for a little clarification here on what is going wrong. I'm in the process of setting up my kit and trying to work out the best way to get everything cabled together.

The room I'm in is a loft conversion so it has all new plugs..but having nabbed one of the powerline adapters from the BT Vision box downstairs, I've tested the connection and it works fine. Sort of.

I'm just using my MacBook Pro, and when it's booted into Windows, the adapter works fine, I can get online, no problems.

When I'm in OSX the connection works, and I get an IP address and all looks connected and ok, but no access to t3h internets.

Anyone else had this? I've tried pressing the config buttons on the adapters, but that didn't seem to do anything and there aren't really any other settings to change.

In both instances, everything was set to auto so there was no risk of me typing in something wrong.

All questions/assistance/mockery appreciated :)

Cheers!

Dave.
 
Pinging the router comes back fine. I haven't got any firewalls on or anything that might impact on the service.

Also it isn't just Chrome, Dropbox and Google Drive are shown to go offline also.

Cheers,

Dave.
 
If you can Ping the router I'd be checking that the DNS is configured correctly and working.

No point as he is not able to log in to the router page this shows a local issue.

Op see if you are able to ping outside the local network,

Ping google.com
Or
Ping 173.194.41.99

If so try and try trace route to google.com and see how far it gets.
 
Ah! fixed it. I created a new location in network preferences so that everything was definitely set to it's default, and noticed the DNS addresses changed.

What I hadn't realised was that there was remnants of a custom setup in the DNS addresses, I thought that these would reset themselves, but apparently not!

Deleted them and they were replaced by those of the homehub, good times. Thanks for talking me through some stuff guys, definitely helps to go over it with someone else.
 
Powerline adapter - noob questions

D'oh! - please ignore. I thought I was starting a new topic

Cheers
 
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