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Story: Yesterday we had a powercut. After the powercut, my office lost Internet. I have a 2 double sockets in the office, one under my desk is used to attach to a Belkin 7 way surge protector and a DP Link homeplug. The other double socket has wife's computer and spare.
After the powercut the homeplug was not picking up the Internet.
I changed to use a different homeplug (old BT spares) and that did not work either. #confused
I noticed that although the power light came on the TP link (ethernet / data did not) the BT was dead. I tried the first homeplug in another socket (under adjacent desk), it worked.
So, it seems that the right side of the left sock, which the homeplug was connected to, is faulty.
Never happened before - is this likely to be the case? Can one side of a double socket stop working properly? I always assumed electric sockets were pretty robust things. If that is likely the case, I'll get it replaced. Just seems odd to me!
After the powercut the homeplug was not picking up the Internet.
I changed to use a different homeplug (old BT spares) and that did not work either. #confused
I noticed that although the power light came on the TP link (ethernet / data did not) the BT was dead. I tried the first homeplug in another socket (under adjacent desk), it worked.
So, it seems that the right side of the left sock, which the homeplug was connected to, is faulty.
Never happened before - is this likely to be the case? Can one side of a double socket stop working properly? I always assumed electric sockets were pretty robust things. If that is likely the case, I'll get it replaced. Just seems odd to me!