So first thing to say is, now resolved. Second thing to say is, I don't know why or how. So long explanation follows....
To begin: This morning, no wired network. Yesterday all fine. The wired network is all powerline driven, one single port on the router, two four ports and a single port upstairs. I didn't try the single port but neither of the fourports were offering any connectivity on xbox, xp or windows 7. All showed connectivity to the adapter but no connectivity beyond and the router was not handing out IP addresses to any devices attached to the Powerlines.
So I began by attempting to force the devices to obtain an IP. No joy. I then went around and reset all the Powerline adapters. No joy. I thought through the possibility that a power spike had done for the lot but nothing else in the house was bust and no clocks or timers reset.
I next decide to eliminate the router, checked it's settings, forced a hardware upgrade and re-booted. Nothing.
I went back to square one and downloaded the Linksys Powerline utility, tried upgrading the firmware, nothing and resetting via the utility. Nothing.
I then dug out my old router and plugged that back in and connected the Powerline adapters via that. Bingo! Life. Aha, router then. I went around re-connecting all the Powerline adapters and all devices. Everything sprung to life except one Windows 7 PC, which continued to give virtually unusable performance despite another laptop on the same adapter returning excellent speed test results. My utility was showing that the tx/rx speeds weren't great, so in desperation I flicked all the sockets off and on on the main board and that seemed to improve things, except the Windows 7 pc.
In one last throw of the dice, I re-plugged the newer router back in and swopped the Powerline's over and the Windows 7 pc sprang to life, as well as everything else returning to normal.
I basically have no idea what the hell caused it all or how it resolved and am opening it up to the floor to provide me some answers. Any clues?
To begin: This morning, no wired network. Yesterday all fine. The wired network is all powerline driven, one single port on the router, two four ports and a single port upstairs. I didn't try the single port but neither of the fourports were offering any connectivity on xbox, xp or windows 7. All showed connectivity to the adapter but no connectivity beyond and the router was not handing out IP addresses to any devices attached to the Powerlines.
So I began by attempting to force the devices to obtain an IP. No joy. I then went around and reset all the Powerline adapters. No joy. I thought through the possibility that a power spike had done for the lot but nothing else in the house was bust and no clocks or timers reset.
I next decide to eliminate the router, checked it's settings, forced a hardware upgrade and re-booted. Nothing.
I went back to square one and downloaded the Linksys Powerline utility, tried upgrading the firmware, nothing and resetting via the utility. Nothing.
I then dug out my old router and plugged that back in and connected the Powerline adapters via that. Bingo! Life. Aha, router then. I went around re-connecting all the Powerline adapters and all devices. Everything sprung to life except one Windows 7 PC, which continued to give virtually unusable performance despite another laptop on the same adapter returning excellent speed test results. My utility was showing that the tx/rx speeds weren't great, so in desperation I flicked all the sockets off and on on the main board and that seemed to improve things, except the Windows 7 pc.
In one last throw of the dice, I re-plugged the newer router back in and swopped the Powerline's over and the Windows 7 pc sprang to life, as well as everything else returning to normal.
I basically have no idea what the hell caused it all or how it resolved and am opening it up to the floor to provide me some answers. Any clues?
