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Why would using WD Livewire devices kill my wireless?

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IamDavid

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I'm stumped. I have a very large home network and have been able to get any device to coexist with everything else until now. I've recently tried to add 4 Livewire devices to the setup with no luck. The wired devices work great but for some reason it total destroys my wireless speeds. At first I thought it was my ATT Uverse router causing the problems so I added a Netgear R6300 to handle all the traffic. It didn't help. I have completely narrowed I down to once I plug these Livewires in it reduces the speeds down to ~2Mbps. The wired stays around the 23Mbps.

Any ideas? I haven't found anything on the WD sites.
 
Is the device running your wifi plugged into the same electrical circuit as the powerline adapters? Do you have only 2.4 ghz wifi or 5 ghz as well, and are both affected? (I'm guessing just 2.4)

I have to imaging that the powerline adapters generate a lot of "interference" that your wifi device may not be able to handle. I would guess that the interference is coming through the AC adapter to your wireless device and not being radiated from the electrical wiring.

Have something to filter the power to your wireless device like a decent UPS?

If anyone has some insight on whether powerline adapters are baseband or broadband that could help narrow it down as well.
 
Thanks for the questions:

CubanlB said:
Is the device running your wifi plugged into the same electrical circuit as the powerline adapters? Do you have only 2.4 ghz wifi or 5 ghz as well, and are both affected? (I'm guessing just 2.4)
I currently use both types depending on the device connecting to it. Both are effected but the 2.4 is worse.

I have to imaging that the powerline adapters generate a lot of "interference" that your wifi device may not be able to handle. I would guess that the interference is coming through the AC adapter to your wireless device and not being radiated from the electrical wiring.

Have something to filter the power to your wireless device like a decent UPS?
Yes, I have a dedicated UPS for both of the routers.

If anyone has some insight on whether powerline adapters are baseband or broadband that could help narrow it down as well.
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I have never used power line devices so I'm note really sure how you can correct this while sill using the devices.

Contact western digital directly perhaps?

Your devices are dynamically rate switching to a lower available speed because something is causing a majority of the frames sent are becoming corrupted. How are you measuring the speeds? File transfer speeds or the link speed reported by your network device?

Usually with wireless you would look for the source of the interference and eliminate it or stop it from radiating, and both of those would mean getting rid of the powerline adapters. How old is your home? It usually inst that hard to run some cat6 in a newer construction home if you have some unfinished spaces.
 
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