Simpler networks power line adapter doesn't suppor...

Hello all,
I am new to BT and youview. Over the weekend I set up youview and have been playing around a bit. The experience so far isn't great - especially I was trying to play the movie Madagascar from iPlayer and literally youview struggled to load. It took around 25 minutes for first 5 minutes of the movie. Needless to say I gave up. What I found was the moment I press play button on the remote the data LED on powerline adapter to which youview is connected turns either red or amber! I tried resetting the adapter but it consistently goes red or amber. If I move to regular channels, it's happily back to green...! Later I found that streaming anything causes this. I checked the Internet and it was consistently above 20 Mbps (on 75 Mbps line). What is wrong with bt/youview? Please help.
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Skanthiah wrote:
the remote the data LED on powerline adapter to which youview is connected turns either red or amber! I tried resetting the adapter but it consistently goes red or amber.
The red / amber lights indicate that the speed at which the powerlines talk to each other is slow, and probably too slow to stream TV.  I believe (although someone can correct me if I'm wrong) that amber means they connect to each other at < 10Mbps and red means < 4Mbps.  Nothing to do with your broadband link, it'll be a problem with the internal wiring in your house slowing the link between the powerlines down.
Not much you can do about that unfortunately short of getting an ethernet cable long enough to reach the hub form your TV or getting a longer cable from your phone socket to bring your hub nearer to the TV.
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