The maverick wrote:Its worked on the powerline fine for several years.
Yep. Usually it's adding a new appliance that can throw it off (e.g. you buy a new fridge and your TiVo stops working!).
Powerline is very flakey. Most computers will adapt to the failed transmissions across the mains network, but TiVo (which was never designed to work this way) is less able to recover from network failures.
You can buy cable joiners on ebay for a few pennies (e.g.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251360544517 ) (Don't buy the over-priced ones from PCWorld, Currys, etc)
or an extension lead
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200453459769