Homeplug Broadband Setup

[tarq476]

I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction. I've read all of the old threads on homeplug here and Dish support doesn't seem to know homeplug exists.

I bought a Netgear homeplug adapter (1.0 compatible) and hooked it up to my router directly to the wall. Currently neither of my receivers (722k and 222k) can connect to this. I made sure that they are both connected directly to the wall.

It seems in other threads that many people had this work right out of the box. Anyone have an idea on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Adam

[harveystern]

I have a 722 and i bought a sling link eithernet adaptor f rom dish store and it works great 49.99 Harvey

[dahenny]

You might try another outlet. Not all of the outlets in my home will connect. Maybe some circuits get blocked by the breaker box or something.

[makman]

You might try another outlet. Not all of the outlets in my home will connect. Maybe some circuits get blocked by the breaker box or something.

I have the same problem

[tarq476]

So I've been tooling around with things. I tried to use the other homeplug adapter and then plug an ethernet cord into the back of the receiver. This worked, but the box without this still will not recognize the network! This tells me that there is a connection now running through my powerline. I also set up the utility and it only recognizes the other homeplug adapter, not the receiver plugged directly to the wall. I'm baffled, is there a way to activate the adapters in the receivers? Any ideas are appreciated.

[Bob Haller]

set both boxes nett to one another, plug in same outlet.

if they dont find one another you have a bad box, although i do believe theres a preferce setting for finding one another..

sorry i dont know more i have just started messing with this

you could run ethernet cable to both boxes, might be easy fix.

me? i want to minimize cabling around here

[shetaan819]

I have my Homeplug adapter connected to a 5-port ethernet hub and then have a ethernet line going from the hub to my 722, seems to work just fine...

[myron243]

I use 3 Netgear wall warts. One on the back wall of the family room connected to my Netgear WRN3500 router. One on the front wall of the family room behind the entertainment center that my Panny BluRay is plugged into. One upstairs for another computer. One 622 is plugged into an APC UPS on the same outlet as the Panny. The other 622 is in the bedroom plugged into another APC UPS. Everything works. The router finds them all and the 622s both show Broadband connects OK. I know the Homeplug dingus on the 622 isn't supposed to work in a surge protector but mine do. And I've seen a few others who have the same luck. Maybe APC just didn't bother to get the Homeplug cert. All I know is mine work. And all I had to do was plug them in. The router is new and when I plugged it in it found everything all by it's lil self.

[Tony S]

tarq476, For the homeplug adapter to work, both devices have to be on the same "power leg". If the 2 AC outlets are on different circuits, the homeplug adapters will not be able to find each other. Try Bob Haller's suggestion to see if your device works. If it works when plugged in to the same outlet, then most likely the 2 AC outlets that you are trying to use are on different circuits.

[Ray_Clum]

Here's

a link to Dish Network's networking instructions, which includes Home Plug instructions. You may want to review your setup versus it.