Yeah I get occasional dropouts in the setup I installed at my mum's place too. And yeah it's just a bit of a weird black box, and also fundamentally it's explo

Yeah I get occasional dropouts in the setup I installed at my mum's place too. And yeah it's just a bit of a weird black box, and also fundamentally it's exploiting a nontrivial system to do something that had little relationships to its design goals. I don't know anything about electrical systems but I assume there is all kinds of random shit that can disrupt Powerline links while still being fully within the design envelope of the power system.