PG2400PKIT Wired Passthrough G.hn 2400 Powerline Adapter, Faster G.hn Technology, Powerline Network Adapters with 2+2 Gigabit Ethernet Ports, No Configuration Required, Plug and Play,Pack of 2

I purchased both a TL-WPA4220KIT and TL-PA4010KIT as part of the same home WiFi solution. As such, I have given the same review for both purchases. We have a long thin Victorian house with a BT HomeHub-5 in the front lounge. We have a ‘copper’ connection to the BT exchange as fibre is not available in our area of London yet. That said, we usually get a reasonable 9-10Mbps connection. Our problem is that we cannot get usable WiFi coverage in the kitchen at the rear of the house. We initially tried to use WiFi signal extenders but these proved slow and unreliable. So, about 3 years ago I purchased an AV500 PowerLine solution from SAGEMCOM. This included a Powerline WiFi extender in the kitchen. This proved to be adequate though we did need to reset all of the adapters about once a month when things ‘locked up’. Then, a month ago, the WiFi adapter in the kitchen handed in its cards and died. Thinking I would try for a higher-tech solution I purchased a WiFi Mesh solution on Amazon. However, this proved to be a complete disaster being slow and totally unreliable. I suspect this was due to the requirement for overlapping WiFi signals between the nodes. Also, as we live very close to the Crystal Palace TV transmitter, we are susceptible to RF interference. So, it was back to the drawing board and I returned to the tried and tested PowerLine solution. I chose these AV600 kits as I have always liked TP-Link products and found them dependable and reliable. As such, in total, we have 3 x TL-PA4010 mini PowerLine adapters and a TL-WPA4220 WiFi extender (in the kitchen). One of the mini adapters in located in the lounge and is connected with a LAN cable to the BT router. The other 2 adapters are in the bedroom. One is connected to a BT YouView box and the other to a Roberts Internet Radio (neither of which support WiFi). A secure network was made by connecting all 4 units in turn by use of the ‘pair’ buttons. All then burst into life and worked fine. The WiFi extender was using its factory SSID and password. I successfully trialed changing this by logging onto its admin screens using a browser (you will need to know its IP address to do this – I picked it up from the BT Hub setup menus). But then, I used the ‘WPS’ method to clone the BT Hub SSID and password instead by, temporarily, moving the extender to the lounge and following the easy ‘quick setup’ guide. This worked a treat and everything has now worked without hiccup for over a month. I have had previous issues with cloned SSID’s - with mobile devices getting confused when connecting. However, thus far, we have not had any problems and devices switch between the BT router and TP-Link extender (as we move around the house) without issues. That was a pleasant surprise! I did get the tpPLC android app for my mobile and its quite informative. It has a poor rating in the Google Play Store but this is IMHO, unjustified. It has no whistles and bells or astounding graphics but it does a job simply and well. I can see the status of all adapters and the speed of communication between each one. I seem to be getting a respectable 380-450 Mbps between each device except when they are idling and the communication rate drops to, I presume, a default 11 Mbps. The app also allows you to rename the devices (which may be useful for any future trouble shooting) and it can used (apparently) for firmware upgrades. Alas, it cannot be used to restart devices (it only allows a factory reset). Nor, can it be used for changing the settings (SSID ID etc) on the extender – this can only be achieved by ‘browser’ access. So, we are pleased. This solution is (thus far) reliable and is reasonably priced. It is also easy to set up (though my prior experience in this area helped) and it’s a step up from our old SAGEMCOM PowerLine solution. Had BT supplied us with a higher speed ‘fibre’ internet connection, I would have gone for say, an AV1200 setup with dual band WiFi. As it is, this meets our needs. Also, if you have a shortage of mains outlets in your house, you may want to opt for more expensive ‘mains pass-through’ adapters. NOTE. I see there are a number of debates on Amazon regarding the reliability of PowerLine solutions. ie. Some people are extremely happy while others have persistent problems. This is not peculiar to TP-Link products. Based on my experience, I would suspect that performance is directly related to the state of the house mains wiring. Our house has recently been rewired which not only improves (and reduces the number of) connections, but potentially shortens cable runs too. As such, unfortunately, a PowerLine solution may not be ideal for everyone - particularly in some older houses with extensions and complications added over the years. You may need to 'suck it and see' to decide if it works for you.

I had already installed a Velop mesh WIFI system in our new house and that works really well. It does rely on you being able to hop from one base station to the next and provided they are in range all is well. Not cheap by any definition but does provide a single cohesive network for the whole house. We recently renovated some outbuildings into workshops and garages and while this was wired from the main house the WIFI strength made the mesh extension option a bit risky as the signal that would need to be boosted was very weak. I came across this product while researching alternatives and was pleased with the excellent reviews on Amazon and decided to give it a go as the cost was not prohibitive in any way. Set-up was very easy and despite the instruction that you connect the base as close as possible to the router I found that the length of power circuitry was a more important factor. I tried "the close to router" approach but the WIFI station failed to pair. I had installed a Cat 7 ethernet system in the house when it was being built and had a number of ethernet ports in various locations to choose from. When the base station was relocated on a shorter spur to the main fuse board it paired successfully and provided a solid WIFi signal in the workshops. The main connection into the house is 300 MBs and even though the signal delivered in the workshops is a fraction of that at about 12 to 20 MBs it is perfectly adequate for what we need. The workshops are connected to the main house by a buried steel wire armoured cable and they have their own distribution board. I was pleased that the devices worked over this configuration and have no doubt that extending within a house on the same circuit would deliver considerably higher speeds. Take it from someone who spent in excess of £600 for WIFI mesh systems that this much cheaper option, with the WPS integration, would provide an equally good solution. Highly recommended and excellent value for money.

The Good: - It did speed up the Mbs in our wifi black spot (from a pathetic 12 to 30+) - Pairing the device was very straight forward. - Seems to work okay if plugged into an extension cable (but you might get lower speeds) The Bad. - Cloning the SSID from hub to the unit via WPS doesn’t work (work around below). - The app is pointless. Don’t bother. - The wifi seems to give faster speeds than connecting via cable? Very odd. - The drop off is significant. The speed of the wifi at our hub is around 100mbs but the best I can get from the TP-link is 44 (more usually in the higher 20s). That said if you have a dead spot that’s better than nothing! Other things to note. - For this to work the two sockets do need to be on the same wiring ring. For us the dead spot is in the converted loft (on a different ring) but bridging the gap by installing between floors has done the job. - You will need to clone the SSID / Password to make sure you don’t have sign in to two different wifi networks. The simple way is to press the wifi button on the unit and the WPS button on the router. This didn’t work for us. Don’t bother with the mobile app. That won’t help either. Search for “TP-Link Utility” in google and download to a laptop. From here you can set the SSID to the same as the one you currently have and the same for the password. Once you have done this as you walk round the house your device(s) will connect to the strongest signal. Overall it’s pricey and needs a bit of time, patience and IT knowledge to install (if things don’t go as per the instructions). BUT, I can now get strong enough internet in the home office so I don’t now freeze during Teams Calls… I’ll be needing a new excuse for dropping off those now.

Very easy to use, plugged it in and that was it, worked perfectly

I am a network engineer and I bought this for a job I had to do for a client which involved getting a wifi signal to a set of remote gate posts on a property for a smart intercom / doorbell. This product for me was both vastly cheaper than buying the amount of cat5 (ethernet) cable I needed and a million times easier than running it down the side of a very long driveway. I am incredibly impressed with this product and I use TP Link powerline networking gear a lot but the first time I used this model with the wifi option which not only worked really well the wifi signal this plug produced was very strong and rock solid and could be picked up from a considerable distance away. Setup literally could not be easier you simply plug the smaller of the two plugs into a electrical socket and plug one end of the supplied cat5 (ethernet) cable into the plug and the other end into the back of your broadband router (or network switch / patch panel etc). Then plug the bigger of the two plugs into a electrical socket in the area you want the extended wifi signal in. The bigger of the two plugs also have a ethernet / network port on it so you can plug a cable into it and then into the back of a computer, tv, games console etc and still benefit from the wifi extension too. Take it from someone who knows their stuff when it comes to this carry on.... this is a excellent piece of kit made by a manufacturer who is unable to make a bad product... TP Link are superb. The price paid is a bargain full stop but as I said above given the cost of the cable I would have to have used this for me was the bargain of the century and saved me a back breaking day of pulling cable. Cannot recommend highly enough... it's a no brainer ladies and gentlemen!

I purchased the TP LInk AV600 extender as I'm now working constantly from home and based on all the positive reviews it seemed like the perfect solution to achieve a consistent wifi connection throughout the house. My home set-up is not complicated or unusual; our main BT router is downstairs and my office is upstairs. The installation was certainly easy and I chose to connect the extender unit to my laptop via an ethernet cable to provide an even more solid connection. However, after a short period of use, the device began stalling & dropping out and the laptop began diverting back to the BT wifi. I then unplugged the ethernet cable and used the TP link wifi and it seemed OK for a day or two, but then the device continued to cut out and we noticed this both on my laptop and also on other mobile devices that were connected to the TP link wifi. I contacted the TP Link on-line chat and spent a very frustrating 75 minutes on line with a technician who asked a number of questions and issued various links to try and install new firmware by downloading a BIN file but with zero guidance on what to do once I'd actually downloaded it. What made this even more frustrating was that it took over 5 minutes each time for the technician to respond to my actions or questions and it got to the point where I had to end the session with the issue unresolved due to a business call. I then elected to phone the help line and managed to speak to a technician who took me down a completely different route of asking me to check my IP address and ping my router. He then asked me to move the extender unit to the room where the master box is installed (in the downstairs room next to my router) and monitor it for 24hrs. (Not the easiest thing to do when you're working at home alone in an upstairs office). However, over the course of a weekend, we left the extender plugged in downstairs and monitored it. Suffice to say we had the same issue with it dropping out. This process has involved multiple emails to their tech support over the course of a week. I've just moved the extender back to the upstairs office and it's dropped out no less than 6 times in one morning. Frankly the device itself is a piece of junk and the tech support is virtually unintelligible and equally useless. It may be that the device works fine for most people, but as I said above, my home set up is not at all unusual and I've been extremely frustrated and disappointed with it. Further Update When I emailed TP LInk tech support to advise that I was ending the matter and returning the device to Amazon, I received an email from a more senior member of their tech team. She immediately seemed much more 'on-the-ball' and her instructions and questions were clear and legible. At her request I agreed to give it "one more go" and after several further emails to guide me through various diagnostic processes, we returned again to the issue of the firmware on the device. With her guidance I updated the firmware and since doing this, the device appears to be functioning correctly. Interestingly I get a much better performance from using the wifi rather than having it connected by cable but at least it's working. We'll see how long it lasts, but for now it's doing an OK job.

This review is for a pair of PG2400P devices (no wifi), with alleged max speed of "up to 1428 Mbps". TLDR; Not an alternative to cat 5e/6 cabling, but actually, not bad. The TP-Link PowerLine Utility app for Windows isn't great, and uses WinPCap, which is vulnerable to dll hijacking, and hasn't been updated since 2013. So best not to use that imho. But these devices do expose a fully featured web-interface, far better than the app, allowing firmware update, reboot, rename, pairing etc. Just find your powerline devices' IP addresses from your router (they're named "pg2400pv1" by default) and pop that IP address into your web browser's address bar. IMPORTANT: Whatever else you do, do make sure you log into the web interface and SET A PASSWORD on each device. My UK 200 year old flat has fairly modern (30 years?) copper 2.5mm twin and earth ring mains, and brick walls internally. Testing real world speeds, using Ookla to measure how much of my FF500 broadband is available via this powerline pair. (Updated devices to firmware 1.1.0, all speeds are download only, in Mbits per second, not bytes). 1) Plugged directly into 25m ethernet, no PowerLine, ie theoretical max baseline: 517Mbps. 2) Via PowerLine pair both in same 2-gang socket: 497Mbps Then dragging that 25m cable and a PG2400P around the flat: 3) Via PowerLine pair one room apart, same ring main: 320Mbps 4) Via PowerLine pair different one room apart, same ring main: 460Mbps 5) Via PowerLine pair two rooms apart, same ring main: 160Mbps 6) Via PowerLine pair different two rooms apart, same ring main: 282bps 7) Via PowerLine pair three rooms apart, *separate ring main*: 76Mbps So I'm reasonably imppressed, for up to 500Mbps broadband anyway. Clearly it depends a lot on individual mains cabling. And it's not a substitute for good wifi or cat 6 cabling, but it's really not bad if you're out of other options.

I would give 0 stars if possible. Unlike Ronseal this does not do what it says on the tin... no where near. After first plugging in the devices they link up as expected and give network connection over the power lines. For context my house is brand new, built in September 2025 and is compliant with the latest electrical standards. We also have full fibre up to 900mbps. I noticed after some initial speed tests the devices are only giving up to 200mbps when across the house from each other. I updated the firmware and also put them both in the same socket gang to see if the speeds would improve... the did not. TP-Link please dont advertise what you cannot promise. They may link in your software at 1100mbps but real world speeds fall far from your expectations.