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I have just found clip below this on Google my house is also Victorian so could be the same. The manufacturers bit at the end sounds to be valid in my case.
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My problem is that my house is 150 yrs old and, although it was rewired recently by a previous owner, the normal power rings are not laid out like a new-build house. This is partly due to the fact that the previous owner was a skinflint and partly due to the layout of the house. This means that the router, Desktop and the collective AV Equipment, although all downstairs, are on three seperate power rings.
The guy in PC World told me that although manufacturers say that their powerline adapters won't work from ring to ring, across the RCDs, they actually will work.
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