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    AFCI and powerline updates?

    I think you are incorrect there. My memory is a little fuzzy right now, but higher frequency actually travels through capacitive couples better. Just check out our ol' friend, the impedance equation for caps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_impedance#Device_examples
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    Powerline adapters crashing

    It is definitely warm, but not any warmer than a warm wall-wart power plug
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    Powerline adapters crashing

    Every now and again, the powerline adapter my PC is connected to, seems to crash. I'm not sure if just the one plug or the whole network of four plugs goes down, but I do know that when I unplug it and plug it back in, my PC regains access to the network. I have a mix, 2x Actiontec 500Mbps...
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    Slow powerline with green link quality light

    Well, this is disheartening. Same performance out of the 200Mbps TP-Link adapters, although it's slightly greater than 4MB/s rather than slightly less.
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    Slow powerline with green link quality light

    I'm not very hopeful, as both wireless and powerline tests have used my PC's LAN port (as the wireless adapter is LAN-based). But, what might I go about tweaking? Edit: I suppose one key difference would be the negotiated ethernet link speed. The Actiontec will negotiate 100MB/s, while the...
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    Slow powerline with green link quality light

    One large file Yup, always pulling from the NAS Ok, this is pretty wild, copying TO the NAS (a DS213+) is 11MB/s+, which is about as good as I can hope to get. These adapters have 100Mbps ports, so the theoretical maximum is 12.5MB/s Still 4MB/s copying FROM the NAS though, which is...
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    Slow powerline with green link quality light

    2GB+ files copied from my NAS to my desktop's SSD using Explorer. To double-check, I hopped back on the wireless just now and got 11MBps (slower than it has been in the past, but still clearly faster) Also just for kicks I tried FTP'ing from the NAS w/ Firefox to take Explorer and SMB out of...
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    Slow powerline with green link quality light

    That's what's so confusing! Yes :(
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    Slow powerline with green link quality light

    Ok, I got the utility sorted out, I had an old'n'busted installation of WinPCap. Installed a new version, it finds the devices now. It seems to be pretty happy:
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    Slow powerline with green link quality light

    Yup, right now the two adapters are in the same room, opposite walls. Should the TRENDnet utility detect Actiontec adapters? It isn't seeing them, even when I reset the key on the adapters and try to copy the default from the sticker into the TRENDnet utility.
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    Slow powerline with green link quality light

    I did have a couple wall warts in the form of a cellphone charger, a smartradio power plug, a water fountain pump and a ham radio charger, but those are all disconnected now. I have been periodically walking my house to see if there's anything I forgot.
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    Slow powerline with green link quality light

    Hmm... I've disconnected every non-appliance that I can in my house (where appliance is fans, stove, heaters, garage opener, fridge, etc) and nada. At this point the only non-appliances are my computer & related devices, and my modem/router/nas. Both groups are isolated by a power strip, and I...
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    Slow powerline with green link quality light

    My powerline adapters (The Actiontec 500 plugs) report via the status LED that they have excellent signal- according to the Actiontec web page, green means "100Mbps+". Yet when I test transfers to my NAS, I get 4MBps where I had 20MBps+ before over wireless N450. Now, I understand that a...
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    RT-N66U, EA-N66 & IPv6

    I have a RT-N66U and a EA-N66. My ISP is Comcast. When I enable IPv6 on my router and my PC picks up an IPv6 lease from the router via the EA-N66 (which is in adapter mode), performance tanks. When I try to ping my router, ping times are in the hundreds of milliseconds, and pings to Google are...
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    EA-N66 as Ethernet adapter

    That's not by design. Try releasing and renewing your DHCP address. The 10.0.1.xxx network starts up until the EA-N66 can establish a wireless connection (so that you can configure it). After the wireless connection is established, you should get pass-through leases (it should be transparent)...
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    How exactly does my "invisible" AP fit in?

    the MAC address allowed to connect bit and wireless status bit are both only relevant to devices connected to the MAIN router with WiFi. The AP is connected with a LAN cable, so naturally you won't see it on the wireless client list. Most routers (by default) will only allow you to connect...
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    EA-N66 as Ethernet adapter

    You'll need to provide a bit more detail about your setup, I think.
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    EA-N66 + RT-N66U: Peak speeds?

    Well, good to hear I'm not alone in this experience at least. Haha, don't I know it, I'm just hoping HALF the rating isn't the best real-world!
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    Are there any 802.11N routers that support link aggregation?

    If you are going for speed not redundancy, you'd need a switch with an uplink one tier higher than the client, and a router to match. In other words, if you have 1Gbit ports on your device, and you want to aggregate them for performance of 2Gbit, your switch uplink and router channels both need...
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    Why do you use ASUSWRT-Merlin?

    The key reason I switched is the ability to arbitrarily customize config files, in a persistent fashion. I'm talking dnsmasq.conf.add, in particular. I have been having trouble getting my NAS to sleep while Windows machines are simply on the network, so I wanted to shut off client use of...
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