Powerline adaptors

[Orcvader]

You can still give it a try. I tried powerlines in one property where upstairs and downstairs was on seperate circuits (it was redone in about 1990s), both adapters was just about to see each other but it was too weak to establish a stable connection. Where as in my current home, same seperate circuits (my fusebox looks similar to yours) and it works fine. I still replaced it with a very long ethernet cable for speed though .

 

[The Deuce]

Just a word of caution. If you router is downstairs and your computers upstairs powerline adaptors may not work. People tend to think just because they work over your mains they will connect to another anywhere in the house.

If you have a ring downstairs and a separate ring upstairs there is no way you can connect the two together with powerlines.

To explain in my house the downstairs is connected by one mains ring. So at my fuse box I have a fuse for the downstairs power sockets. Upstairs power sockets have a seperate fuse. So both rings are not connected together. Therefore if I put a powerline adaptor upstairs and one downstairs they cant see each other because they are on different power rings. There is no cross over. Really you need to check your fusebox and see how your mains goes round your house.

However if I put two powerlines downstairs as they are on the same ring they can see each other.

I didnt realise this till I did some research. In the end I put Cat 5 cable from downstairs to upstairs once I had worked out a route and its the best thing I did.

Just something to bear in mind when thinking about powerline adaptors.

This is certainly NOT the case in my house, I have separate rings for all my lights up and down and power up and down and I use powerlines without any problems.

 

[bremen1874]

It just isn't true.

Assuming there's a single incomer then all of the circuits will be connected together at some point. RCDs may slow things down, but they don't completely block the signals.

 

[Trick]

I have seperate rings for upstairs and downstairs in my house and powerline adapters work ok between ground floor and loft. The speed drops to about 4.5MB/s but that's fine for me.