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

Revainrating 3 out of 5

In general, it's pretty good, an equal number of pros and cons.

One could also get the impression that the products produced by this brand are withdrawing from the market. There are many different types of kits that are no longer available on Yamarket (AV600 was difficult to get; for some reason, there are only 500 everywhere now), wi-fi extenders separately (which is more needed than a full new kit) - almost the same; gigabit instances appear to be non-existent in nature at all. Has pros: Simple, uncluttered, attractive, and practical. I believe that this is the case with all powerline adapters; nevertheless, because TP Link is a tried and tested brand, I decided to go with it. Thrilled to have the option to switch off the LEDs permanently or on a predetermined time. Negative: Pay attention right here! There are two separate factors that contributed to the decline in rating. To begin, after one year of use, one of the wifi extenders started making an audible squeak (the fault is indicated on the internet as being the power supply; but - come on! - it didn't appear after five or ten years, but after some year). And the second is, in general, total rubbish, although it would appear that the manufacturer does not believe this to be a problem. After the router should come the powerline adapters to be connected. The IP addresses used by my home network are all handed out by my router, of course. But on rare occasions and seemingly at random (I have not yet identified any pattern in this behavior), the extension will launch its very own DHCP server. The most of the time, it was only for a brief period of time (one or two minutes), but there were a few occasions where I needed to perform a factory reset. During this time, the entire network will, as a matter of course, feel some discomfort, and anything that is connected after the extension will simply lose its ability to access the Internet. When operating from a remote location, this is an exceptionally astounding feat. And what's even worse is that starting DHCP in any way (well, that is, entirely) is not disabled in the settings; rather, you are merely positioned before the fact of writing in the logs. Already in possession of two separate AV600 adaptor and WiFi extender sets, all of which suffer from the same issue. On the forum for providing technical support, this question was posed, however it was never replied.