Struggling with homeplugs

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Got bought a wifi extender. It's a sagemcom fast plug 502w and I'm trying to introduce it to a tplink 500mbps lan. It's not even picking up the presence of a homeplug network.

I can move the tplink ones around no problem and they immediately pick up the network. Only difference I guess is that they are preconfigured. I'm going to look up how to reset them and see if they then struggle.

They're all homeplug compatible though the new one is 200mbps and the old are 500mbps but I wouldn't imagine that causing issues other than speed?

[edit]new one is also 500, hence the product name! It offers slower over wifi is all, so that's even less of a problem.
 
I've just instaled it. The powerline adapters are seeing the LAN connection direct to my laptop but the utility, though it worked on one of the adapters now works on none of them. Doesn't see the local device :confused:

[edit]The anti virus softare had re-enabled itself. Got it connecting now, but the passwords on their underneath don't work. Unless the default login isn't admin on this, even though the tplink site says it is.
 
Right, I have 4 TPLink homeplugs now connected using the utility.

I can't find a utility that configures the Sagem. It tells me to go to the web page which is only available very erratically, like it times out if you don't do it quick enough :confused:
 
This is what I mean, the manual says to connect to 192.168.1.1 as the default IP but it drops out:

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Am I looking at a failed unit?
 
It may have picked up a different IP address from your DHCP server. Does your router show you a list of connected devices with MAC address? The new home plug should have it's MAC address printed on it, you could use this to find the IP of the homeplug.

In the past when a device has been preconfigured with a static IP I've had to connected directly with a LAN cable to bring up the webgui and change the IP mode to dynamic.

Connect your computer directly to the homeplug and set your IP to 192.168.1.2 and gateway to 192.168.1.1.
Then open a web browser and browse to http://192.168.1.1
 
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Thanks for the reply mate :)

I have a direct connection from my lappy to the fastplug but still cannot access the admin page (I was pinging the preconfigured IP from my laptop, which is directly connected, in the image above, as long as the manual is correct in saying that it's 192.168.1.1 - which has actually worked for very short bursts and I cannot replicate what was done to get the admin page open, and nor can I now get it to respond to ping for even a short period).

I only got it to actually respond in the first place by turning on my wireless access on my laptop even though I had it hardwired.

I thought it might be an IP conflict but everything is configured on 192.168.0.x

[edit]Sorry, you said to change my IP to be on the same subnet? Will give that a go now.
 
No joy on that, couldn't see a difference anywhere. I can see now why it would struggle to talk to it if it's on different subnets but I'm now in a quandary where, given that a direct connection to it isn't possible that I can't reconfigure it?!

[edit]Oh, and the MAC of the new homeplug isn't listed in connected devices in my homehub.

[edit2]192.168.0.x was my old network configuration. Everything is on a 192.168.1.x configuration now.
 
Sagemon
COEXISTENCE & COMPATIBILITY
Coexistence with HomePlug® 1.0 devices
(14Mbps) and HomePlug® 1.0 Turbo devices(85Mbps)
Works with HomePlug AV® devices: 200 Mbps

How have you actually configured the sage?
You are plugging the pc direct into the sage arent you?
From the manual you have to run the setup wizard via the web interface, at the moment I'd say both your homehub and sage are both acting as dhcp servers etc.
 
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I'm plugging directly into the sagem device but cannot connect to the web page to configure either manually or via the wizard.

I wonder if I need to do it completely independently of my router and current setup and then introduce it. Be a real ball ache if that's the case :(
 
Right, getting somewhere slowly. I can now connect and can access the wizard.

DHCP is disabled, I manually set the IP of my machine and managed to connect to it. I still don't see how I can marry it to my current homeplug network though.
 
No I had switched it off but left the device connected to the other homeplug as per the manual. It doesn't seem to like that :(

I think, to be honest, that I've got the wrong device. It seems to want to connect directly to the ISP when all I really wanted was a wireless repeater. I didn't realise it would have such a large amount of configuration available.

I can't find the manual config. either. It just wants to run through the wizard.
 
Got a kludge of sorts running. Although it isn't recognising the network as a homeplug network I've got it hard wired into a different homeplug that is working. That one is providing net access to the sagem one with the sagem one offering the wifi connectivity.

It's working, but annoying that it needs both units plugged in together.
 
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