Loss of Ethernet

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I had an electrician come round, and he said that changing to a "modern" consumer unit with RCD's and MCBs would trigger a requirement to bring the whole house up to modern regulations and require a complete rewire of the whole place.

What total rubbish! Try a different electrician.

PS I am aware that this is taking this thread off topic. If there is any desire to extend this conversation then please start a new topic on the Tech Help board.

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@samd 

 you are not by any vacancy plugging any of the Powerline into an extension lead? These can cause problems and if it is a filtered extension then they almost certainly will not work.

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@Dan_the_Van Sorry but I did say it is powerline \LEDs that are not showing.  All power LED are functioning.  I am interested in what you term as Powerline Device key which is a new concept to me.  My kit is quite old.

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@Baldrick1 

"I had an electrician come round, and he said that changing to a "modern" consumer unit with RCD's and MCBs would trigger a requirement to bring the whole house up to modern regulations and require a complete rewire of the whole place.

What total rubbish! Try a different electrician."

Just to close this bit off - I have just contacted another electrician, and as you say, what I was previously told was indeed "total rubbish".

Eletrician 2 is coming round next week to give me a price - but I already know that due to the latest regulations, it won't be cheap.

Thanks for the prompt to re-investigate. 

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@samd wrote:

@Dan_the_Van Sorry but I did say it is powerline \LEDs that are not showing.  All power LED are functioning.  I am interested in what you term as Powerline Device key which is a new concept to me.  My kit is quite old.

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I am referring to the password found below the mains plug pins, it is in the format

ABCD-EFGH-IJKL-MNOP

I use it to add the device to the tp-link powerline app

HTH