Re: Trendnet 200 Mbps Powerline AV Issues

[cameo <cameo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/2/2017 8:49 AM, Bob F wrote:
> On 6/1/2017 4:42 PM, cameo wrote:
>> I've been using the TPL-303E2K Powerline adapters for several years to
>> connect my IP surveillance cameras through them to Internet via my
>> home's 120V power lines. The setup worked for me better than WiFi but
>> a few weeks ago it stopped working. After some experimentation I found
>> out that the cams would still work from electric outlets closer to my
>> router but that's not where I needed to have them. The best guess I
>> could come up is that perhaps my power lines got much "noisier"
>> recently but I can't figure what could have caused that because I have
>> not introduced any new electric appliances that could account for it.
>> I wonder if any of you experienced similar unexplained problems and
>> had come up with an explanation, and hopefully a fix for it.
>
> It could be like X10 signals. Plug something new into a socket, and
> suddenly the signal on that phase of the power gets sucked down to where
> it rarely works. The something new could be in any house connected to
> the transformer that feeds your house. Check whether the places the
> signal doesn't work are all on one phase of the power.

Hm. Thanks. Of course I could not do much if the power noise comes from
a neighbor. I was also wondering if the power company itself puts some
carrier frequency on its lines as a means to remotely read the meters.