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Problems with Powerline adaptors

sacherlover · 2015-07-27 13:43:44

Hi All, I have a Lenovo desktop, about 1.5 years old. It was not wifi enabled, so I bought a Netgear Powerline kit. The router is in the lounge, my desktop and partner's laptop are in the room next to the lounge. Worked fine for about 14 months. Now I regularly have a 'no internet' message, when my partner's laptop still…

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techno12 Posts: 734 Forumite

31 July 2015 at 1:04AM edited 31 July 2015 at 1:07AM

I've used Powerlines for nearly 10 years and about once a month I need to power cycle them as the connection fails for some reason (triangle exclamation mark in Windows system tray over the LAN symbol).

Not a big problem and I'm used to it now - I just switch them off one by one (I have 3) and back on in the same order. Only takes a minute.

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