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Powerline/Homeplug Adapter suddenly stopped working
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I bought a pair of 85mbps Powerline adapters. One is plugged into the router, and the other is plugged into my netbook.
They worked great at first, and continued to do so for several days.
Earlier today my netbook's ethernet connection said that it was connected to an "unidentified" network, and there is no internet access.
I looked into it, and it seems it might have something to do with the MAC address of the netbook and / or powerline adapter on the netbook end changing. This would SEEM to make sense because just before it stopped working I removed a USB DVD burner from the netbook (Unplugged it). Can this change the MAC address? I know that hardware changes can do it.
I've installed the utility for diagnosing etc., and while the computer plugged directly into the router can see the powerline adapter plugged into the router (That is, the powerline adapter on the router end), the netbook cannot see the powerline adapter on the netbook end.
I don't know if it's supposed to be able to, but the router end computer cannot see the powerline adapter on the netbook end either.
I know this is a lot of jumbled information, but hopefully someone has experienced something similar to this, or can give me some advice. I've tried restarting the netbook, unplugging the powerline adapter from the wall, switching around the patch cable from the powerline adapter to the netbook, disabling and re-enabling the ethernet adapter (Incidentally the wireless adapter still works fine) - everything I could think of.
They worked great at first, and continued to do so for several days.
Earlier today my netbook's ethernet connection said that it was connected to an "unidentified" network, and there is no internet access.
I looked into it, and it seems it might have something to do with the MAC address of the netbook and / or powerline adapter on the netbook end changing. This would SEEM to make sense because just before it stopped working I removed a USB DVD burner from the netbook (Unplugged it). Can this change the MAC address? I know that hardware changes can do it.
I've installed the utility for diagnosing etc., and while the computer plugged directly into the router can see the powerline adapter plugged into the router (That is, the powerline adapter on the router end), the netbook cannot see the powerline adapter on the netbook end.
I don't know if it's supposed to be able to, but the router end computer cannot see the powerline adapter on the netbook end either.
I know this is a lot of jumbled information, but hopefully someone has experienced something similar to this, or can give me some advice. I've tried restarting the netbook, unplugging the powerline adapter from the wall, switching around the patch cable from the powerline adapter to the netbook, disabling and re-enabling the ethernet adapter (Incidentally the wireless adapter still works fine) - everything I could think of.
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They shouldn't change ever unless you are doing some sort'a network spoofing for some reason.
With powerline adapters I would look more at interference coming onto the powerlines causing issues more than network configuration if you didn't change anything. You have a microwave or washer or dryer or something "older" running now that you didn't use to when it was working?
Nothing like that had changed, as far as I know, but it's a moot point now: I sent the company an email stating the problem, and instead of trying to fix it they just asked me to send it back for a refund, which I figured was easier. Maybe I'll buy a more expensive, better quality set later down the line.