HomePlug

[OregonScott]

I have a 722 and a 622....DSL 1.5.....xe102 netgear homeplug.....Neither one of the receivers will stay on line.....both hook up for about 15 seconds and then drop off. I have tried all the rebooting tricks for both homeplug and receivers......I have the receiver plugged into the same outlet as the main homeplug. I connected a laptop to the to the homeplug with another xe102 and it works great. The xe102 utility disk says I have excellent quality.....14mps with no drops or fails. Help!

[BPeter]

Is this the first time you have tried to get it to work, or did it just stop working? The reason I ask is that my DishCOMM just stopped working (according to dish on 8/11). There is a thread here about other folks have similar problems with DishCOMM that did not have it before. My thought is that it is a software issue. Maybe Dish found it necessary to collect some fee income for their earnings release.

[OregonScott]

I had it working intermittently last week but never continulosly.....I tried tech support for at least 4 hours and they know nothing...never even heard of home plug....finally they sent me to wildblue....who after several hours said it was netgear even after I told them it worked fine with pc's.....they said they have no support for homeplug

[stimpson]

Not sure what to tell you. I have just hooked my 722 up with a NETGEAR XE104 last night. It's the 4 port switch HomePlug. I also have my PS3 hooked to it as well. Played around with DishOnline and did several connection test last night. The first few tests said it had a poor connection, but downloaded a program just fine. Checked this morning, and it was still showing that it was online. Ran the connection test again and now it shows my connection to be excel. Could it be an IP issue with your router?

[OregonScott]

how would I check that?

[stimpson]

If you can get it to connect again, see what IP address it has. Make sure no other items on your network are using the same address. Also, make sure your wired SSID on your router is named HomePlug.

[OregonScott]

the IP's are all different....192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 ect.........I don't know how to check the SSID on hte router

[stimpson]

What kind of router is it? You can open up most router control panels by typeing 192.168.0.1 in the address bar of your browser, then hit enter.

[johnch]

I use homeplug on both 622s with the homeplug compatible powerstrip. On the receiver furtherest away from the router I get almost 2mg/sec speed which isnt too bad. Remember everyone measures speed differently so not exactly sure what Dish is measuring. In the room closest to the router and the same homeplug compatible powerstrip the 622 does not recognize the network. I plug in a homeplug outlet into the same homeplug passthrough and the system works fine.

I dont get it as to why some 622s work and some dont. Also I dont have my ssid as homeplug for my router and my system works. Could someone explain why the router ssid is important and should be named homeplug.

JC

[OregonScott]

It's an Actiontec.......I tried to change the SSID by goings to the IP address....but all I could find to change was the ESSID....and they said it should be the same name as the SSID