PX50 Deco's - Force PLC Connection
I have terrible Wi-Fi signal due to the age of my property and it's thick walls, which is why I have invested in PX50's for PLC backhaul.
Unfortunately some of my satellites randomly decide to drop PLC and use Wi-Fi which degrades performance.
I have:
- 1x PX50 (Main Deco)
- 4x PX50 (Satellite Deco)
- 1x X50 Outdoor (Satellite Deco - Ethernet cabled to a PX50)
I would like to force my PX50s to only use PLC.
Is this possible? Is there a special firmware version?
Hi, Thanks for the feedback.
It is not supported to set the Powerline Backahul only. Usually, PLC+Wi-Fi Backhaul provides better network speed.
Do you mean the satellite PX50 units sometimes work on WiFi Backhaul only?
Or the Internet speed from the satellite PX50(PLC+Wi-Fi Backhaul) was worse than another satellite PX50(PLC Backhaul only)?
Can I have some screenshots of the current Mesh Backhaul on the Deco PX50, such as:
Thank you very much and best regards.
@David-TP Hi,
WiFi + PLC would be fine but the WiFi signal is so poor it's a bit meaningless. My issue is that Decos in WiFi range even with a poor signal sometimes drop PLC as shown in the screenshot. Speeds typically drop 50% or 66% and reliability becomes a huge problem with latency and drop outs.
You can see since the Garage Deco is so far away from the house (about 75m) that it works perfectly stuck on PLC only (except this morning it thinks it has WiFi too) . I get triple the download speeds often now in my garage compared to sitting at my desk (in the Stable).
@David-TP here is a screenshot of what it looks like when the system rarely behaves (usually needs a hard power cycle on all Decos)