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I had a look and it's still an issue
www.tp-link.com/uk/support/faq/406/
Q3.4: Can Powerline adapters work if they are separated by different electric circuits?
A: No. If they can pair in the same room, but the powerline LED turns off when you move one powerline device to another area, this usually means they are plugged into separate electrical circuits, preventing them from communicating. Please try different locations.
Probably the cheapest solution is to run an ethernet wire from your router to the area without a signal and then plug in something like this to create a new wireless network for that part of your house.
TP-LINK TL-WR802N - wireless router - 802.11b/g/n - desktop(TL-WR802N) smile.]]
Strictly speaking this isn’t an ‘issue’ with powerline, that it can’t cross different circuits
It’s a fact of life due to the way it works - the network traffic is sent across the circuit and can be picked up via any socket along the circuit. It’s not physically possible to use powerline from one circuit to the next.
(But there could be a workaround)
Some technology options are:
Put your main wifi router in a different location, ideally central. In reality this is rarely an option as your router is limited by the point that your internet arrives in the home, which will be a hole drilled in the wall nearest the outside network.
But it may be possible to move it some distance with a longer cable to the point of entry if the problem is a particular solid wall etc - but that might result in a worse primary connection to the internet
A wifi booster connects to the main router and transmits a stronger signal. This only works in some cases, such as giving just enough extra power to get through a wall.
To a degree you may be able to change the wifi routers operating mode to give a stronger signal
Another option is a wifi repeater. This is typicaly a wall plug that picks up any wifi signals and retransmits it.
You generally place this at a mid point, but not might work by going to an odd corner to effectively bounce the signal at angles - avoiding the problem wall
An option is to add a long Ethernet cable - from the router to the problem room. Then you have a direct connection - but it only works for that one point, and if you have more then you can only do as many as the wifi router has Ethernet sockets
An improved version is to wire up your house with Ethernet. Put an Ethernet socket in a number of rooms, each wired to a hub in a cupboard. You plug one cable from the wifi router to the hub, then the hub transmits along the fixed wires to a network socket and then connect the equipment in that room to the appropriate network socket
The possible workaround for powerline across different mains circuits is:
- connect the wifi router to a powerline in a mains socket
- find two mains sockets each on different mains circuits but close enough to each other
- plug a powerline into each of those sockets,
- connect an Ethernet cable between the two powerlines
- connect a final powerline socket to your computer
This is convoluted but might work