I had trouble with my HPNA lines because I had too many "splices and devices" on it. It was fine if I wired it directly to the receiver with only a couple of other things on the line. But when I started adding other phones, modems, and fax machines, each with its own splice, the reliability of the HPNA went down.

I eventually just bit the bullet and ran real ethernet to the receiver.

One note about the power switch:

Even though it doesn't have a real power switch, if you pound on the "power" button on the front panel several times quickly, the Receiver will perform a full cold reboot, just as if it had been actually power-cycled. This nifty little feature has saved me a lot of painful reaching and pulling when I was debugging network problems.

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Tony Fabris