No multiplugs involved, but I'll definitely go googling for firmware
updates.
Leo
On 12/07/11 11:13, Peter Andrijeczko wrote:
> Just my two cents worth...
>
> I bought a couple of Belkin powerline adapters about 18 months ago to
> replace some older ones, they started off being slower than the ones
> they were replacing.
>
> I discovered there was new firmware for them, installed that and they
> worked much better but were still not as fast as I had hoped they would
> be and needed resetting about once a week.
>
> Downstairs next to the BT Home Hub, the powerline is plugged straight
> into the wall socket, but upstairs the correspnding one was plugged into
> a multi-plug adapter, a Belkin surge master one. I did some
> investigation on the web and discovered that they don't like surge
> protection, so moved it to a cheapo standard adapter. Since then they've
> worked perfectly and I cannot remember the last time I had to reset them.
>
> So it's worth checking firmware on your powerlines and definitely move
> them off of any surge protection extension sockets.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
> On 12 July 2011 09:06, Benjie Gillam <benjie@???
> <mailto:benjie@jemjie.com>> wrote:
>
> My suspicion is that powerline is dropping or corruping a bunch of
> packets and so you have a high retransmission rate clogging up your
> network port.
>
> My other suggestion is what Keith said - perhaps there is a
> bottleneck somewhere else on your system.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Benjie
>
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