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I am trying to push Homeplug adapters over its "normal" use, in a long distance powerline. Specifically TL-PA2010 AV200 adapters. Consider I have a energy line like:
A---B---C- - -
The distance between points A and C (AC) are beyond Homeplug capacity, but between AB and BC it works fine. In everypoint I put a Homeplug adapter and a WiFi OpenWRT router. Router in point A connects to WAN and have DHCP and others are just switch/repeater/dumb AP.
My idea is to use a intermediate router and Homeplug adapter as a "signal booster", but seems I am missing something.
The problem: Router in point C is able to ping router B, but not router A. Router B is able to ping router A and C. I think that is a limitation because input and output are in the same port of router B, due to nature of Homeplug mesh.
Any comment will be helpful. Thanks.
TNT
Posted 2016-08-03T18:42:57.217
Reputation: 101
Very interesting idea, would you be able to use 2 powerline at point B
A--B-C--Dand connect B and C with an ethernet cable and remove all routers? – sebastienvg – 2016-08-03T18:49:44.910I tried this, and also just one Homeplug adapter on point B, without router. C still can't ping A. – TNT – 2016-08-04T12:19:54.877
Tried Plug A-B-ROUTER-C-D ? IE - what @stresscool suggests, but with a router/switch at B ? And perhaps try A/B on one homeplug network and C/D on another (you can usually switch them using some sort of config utility) – benlumley – 2016-08-18T13:57:55.787
AFAIK, HomePlug [AV] does not create a mesh – it works strictly in direct mode, like typical Wi-Fi. (Meanwhile, the competing G.hn standard does use a mesh with adapters automatically acting as repeaters.) – user1686 – 2016-12-03T17:01:34.943