Powerline gives internet connectivity, but not network access, so Blusound not visible
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Firstly: I realise that this isn't a problem with the Blusound set up and that it's my home network at fault, but hoping someone in this forum might know an answer!
My music files are all on a home cloud drive in my music room. Everything in that room works great.
My PC and another Blusound Node are in another room, the room where my router is.
The router sends internet access to my music room via a powerline, and that part is working great, I have very good internet access in my music room through the powerline.
The router is also connected to my PC and other Node via Ethernet. My PC and nearby Node cannot see my home cloud drive so I can't access my music via either of those devices.
As a test I have just run a very long ethernet cable from my router to my music room and bypassed the powerline adapter in that room. My PC and Node can now see the home cloud drive in the music room and can access files from it.
To cut that long story short: My powerline seems to be delivering internet access to my music room, but is not allowing network access to be passed back from the music room to elsewhere.
I've tried router resets, powerline resets, PC and Node resets, nothing makes a difference.
Anyone know what the cause/fix could be please?
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Powerline devices can either be the answer to everything or the root cause of all problems unfortunately as you have found.
I have had TP link Powerline devices that do odd things to MAC addresses and also needed power-cycling weekly to keep them working.
Perhaps looking at a Wi-Fi mesh system might be the answer, I personally bought Plume but I know Bluesound have had good results with devices from Google.
To give you an idea of Plume I have a Bluesound HUB and that lives in a cupboard and the signal goes about 25ft through two walls and the cupboard and I get “Excellent” showing as signal strength.
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Thanks, I'll have a look at that. What's really annoying is that this system worked perfectly for several months and has now just decided not to!
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I have an alternative router I can use, just tried switching to that, and at this moment in time, everything working perfectly! Perhaps something had got altered on my other router (I'll likely never know!)
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If you have not done so… Power off your Router, power line devices and all Bluesound equipment, then turn the Router back on and wait five mins, then the Powerline devices and again wait a while. Now turn on the Bluesound hardware and see if that helps.
Do check your Router in case there was a firmware update and setting were reset or altered.
Edit… we cross posted LOL
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Your powerline adapter is probably running in NAT mode and adding its own subnet, thus not forwarding all the multicast traffic. See if you can open the configuration page of your powerline adapter and set it into bridge mode.
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