A method for determining a location of at least one dominant disturber in a PLC network comprising PLC transceivers interconnected by segments of said PLC network, said method comprising: - determining disturber signals (DIS12, DIS13, DIS21, DIS23, DIS31, DIS32) indicating presence or absence of disturbers based upon obtained and processed channel frequency response information (CFR12, CFR13, CFR21, CFR23, CFR31, CFR32) pertaining to a PLC transceiver of a segment; and - for at least one of said segments generating PLC transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC1; CNT-PLC2) for PLC transceivers (PLC1, PLC2) of said one segment based upon at least one of: - related disturber signals (DIS12, DIS21); and - related channel frequency response information (CFR12, CFR21), respectively related to one of said PLC transceivers of said segment; and - applying a decision criterion to said generated PLC transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC1, CNT-PLC2, CNT-PLC3) to select one of said transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC2) indicating said dominant disturber being located in the proximity of the pertaining transceiver (PLC2 characterized in that said step of generating PLC transceiver statistics comprises in the event that said related disturber signals (DIS12, DIS21) both indicate a presence of a disturber: fitting said related channel frequency response information (CFR12, CFR21) to each other and hereby calculating at least one parameter representative of the difference between both; furthermore in the event when said at least one parameter exceeding a predefined threshold applying a first additional weight to a PLC transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC2) pertaining to the transceiver with the most impacted channel frequency response information by said disturber; and otherwise applying said first additional weight to both PLC transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC1, CNT-PLC2). - determining disturber signals (DIS12, DIS13, DIS21, DIS23, DIS31, DIS32) indicating presence or absence of disturbers based upon obtained and processed channel frequency response information (CFR12, CFR13, CFR21, CFR23, CFR31, CFR32) pertaining to a PLC transceiver of a segment; and - for at least one of said segments generating PLC transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC1; CNT-PLC2) for PLC transceivers (PLC1, PLC2) of said one segment based upon at least one of: - related disturber signals (DIS12, DIS21); and - related channel frequency response information (CFR12, CFR21), respectively related to one of said PLC transceivers of said segment; and - for at least one of said segments generating PLC transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC1; CNT-PLC2) for PLC transceivers (PLC1, PLC2) of said one segment based upon at least one of: - related disturber signals (DIS12, DIS21); and - related channel frequency response information (CFR12, CFR21), respectively related to one of said PLC transceivers of said segment; and - related disturber signals (DIS12, DIS21); and - related channel frequency response information (CFR12, CFR21), respectively related to one of said PLC transceivers of said segment; and - applying a decision criterion to said generated PLC transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC1, CNT-PLC2, CNT-PLC3) to select one of said transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC2) indicating said dominant disturber being located in the proximity of the pertaining transceiver (PLC2 characterized in that said step of generating PLC transceiver statistics comprises in the event that said related disturber signals (DIS12, DIS21) both indicate a presence of a disturber: fitting said related channel frequency response information (CFR12, CFR21) to each other and hereby calculating at least one parameter representative of the difference between both; furthermore in the event when said at least one parameter exceeding a predefined threshold applying a first additional weight to a PLC transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC2) pertaining to the transceiver with the most impacted channel frequency response information by said disturber; and otherwise applying said first additional weight to both PLC transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC1, CNT-PLC2). fitting said related channel frequency response information (CFR12, CFR21) to each other and hereby calculating at least one parameter representative of the difference between both; furthermore in the event when said at least one parameter exceeding a predefined threshold applying a first additional weight to a PLC transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC2) pertaining to the transceiver with the most impacted channel frequency response information by said disturber; and otherwise applying said first additional weight to both PLC transceiver statistics (CNT-PLC1, CNT-PLC2).