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Review on Enhance Your WiFi Range with TP-Link TL-WPA4220KIT 300Mbps AV500 Powerline WiFi Extender Start Kit by Stanislaw Kimsa ᠌

Revainrating 5 out of 5

The perfect product for any user!

I am completely satisfied, it completely removed one of my headaches - stable and fast Internet in the back room where my wife works. The layout of the apartment is "corridor", such a long sausage, on the way from the router to the workplace 15 meters, and two walls, including a load-bearing brick, more than a meter thick. But using physics, knowledge of technology and fifth-level spells, it was possible, in such difficult conditions, to get a good and stable WiFi. However, everything changes when they come - neighbors. Scanning shows more than 20 WiFi networks around, and from 18:00 to 20:00, the WiFi speed dropped catastrophically to 5M and below, and the spouse works with YouTube and this is unacceptable. In general, once again they pressed the peasant against the main wall and demanded - "to solve the issue." The issue, in principle, was resolved, but, because. my topology is very complicated, built-in wardrobes, walls, etc. along the way, it was required - buying a cable bay (~ 1200r), a second, possibly simple, router (~ 2022r), removing stretch ceilings in the corridor and room, chasing two walls . Those. all this happiness, in total, I estimate much higher than those 3500r that the kit costs (all the more I knocked out a freebie, a coupon for 1tyr in one grid, and it turned out 2700r). I knew about data transmission technologies over a power network for a very long time, but I also had information about their capabilities 20 years ago, when speeds did not rise above hundreds of kilobits, and therefore did not pay attention to them. But then I saw the characteristics (up to 500M) and decided that if the equipment provides at least 50M, then this will already solve my problems. So I decided to try this kit as a last resort to avoid all this hemorrhoids. In reality, everything turned out to be fine - the speed is 150M (the wiring is fresh copper and a half, a total of 25 meters through the shield, i. E. there are two automatic machines along the way). Also, due to the built-in WiFi, the issue with the half-dead zone was resolved, where my daughter likes to watch cartoons on the tablet. Plus, one more port remained free, it will go to the TV in the future.

Pros
  • Unexpectedly easily solved my old problem of delivering cable internet to a back room. Multiple slave modules can be included in the system.
Cons
  • At the moment, it is problematic to buy an additional module, and they ask for it as a complete set (look without the word KIT). If you configured WiFi incorrectly when you first turned it on, then only manual configuration will help. For some reason, setting up via the Web interface (with a wired connection) didn’t work for me, stubbornly throwing the site over to TP-Link. And the software for manual configuration cannot be downloaded from the 2022-language part of the TP-Link site, to which the browser stubbornly forcibly throws, the software lies on the English-language one. Fortunately, all settings need to be done only once.