All, I have been using a pair of Powerline adapters with great success to connect 2 parts of my LAN. I now want to connect another device, and I'm not sure if I can just use another single Powerline unit? Can I add them individually to the existing units, or do Powerline adapters have to work in pairs? I appreciate there are some variations on the standard, so I would certainly expect to have to use the same flavour of Powerline (I think the existing pair are "AV" / 200Mb/s). Thanks, JJ
As long as it uses the same chips (just get the same model) then you can add singles or doubles to the network.
If the extra powerline you want to add is identical to your existing one, then you should only need to add that single powerline to join the existing "circuitry"/network. My home network using 3 powerline at the moment...one at upstair and two at downstair, and it's working perfectly fine.
Same here - 3 powerline adaptors, All 200Mb. They don't need to be from the same manufacturer though. I have one from Belkin, the others from Devolo. No probs with intraoperability.
Thanks guys.. good advise! It seems they don't have to be identical devices, but keeping to the same standard - or ideally, the same chipset - is important. Ta, JJ
Yeah I'm using three 85mbps. I stuck to the same vendor and model for all three in my case, which I'd probably say makes sense, but as long as they all conform to the same standard it should be fine. Its worth pointing out that the 10mbps and 85mbps are compatible with each other, but 200mbps is only compatible with other 200mbps products.
