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Works like a champ! Blows away the Netgear POE adapter.

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2020

I have a computer in my detached garage workshop. Previously I tried using a Netgear POE adapter and the speed was barely usable for web browsing. I also stream music in the garage and the Linksys was constantly dropping the signal between the main unit and the remote.

I have a couple of other TP-Link products and a friend of mine suggested that I try this POE adapter. He’s had good luck with it in a similar detached garage setup.

The setup was super easy and the iPhone app works slick. The upload speed on Speedtedt.net is about 40mbps where the download speed is around 12 mbps. Pretty amazing for running over the AC power line. I figure the wire distance between the transmitter and receiver is about 150 feet, and the receiver is on a sub panel, so there are two circuit breakers involved.

The WiFi in the garage is rock solid with this adapter. A very useful product at a fair price.

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Kindle Customer

Great so far

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2017

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So far I'm happy with it.

1. The instructions say to sync them the first time with outlets near each other. I tried two outlets in the same room and they wouldn't sync. You can imagine the unpleasant feeling that produced. However, I moved one of them to the hallway and they instantly synced. I then moved one upstairs and connected the TV to it.
2. I'm getting up to 15Mbps according to the Amazon app on the TV, which is weird (and suspicious) because I never get such good number on my PC. However, there are many reasons why the PC might not show such high numbers. Or the Amazon app could be crazy.
3. I've streamed a few movies through it and they played in HD without any buffering or stuttering.
4. I have not yet tried connecting two things to a single outlet brick so I don't know how that affects things.
5. It comes with two Ethernet cables that are roughly six feet long.
6. They do not block the upper outlet if you use the bottom one.
7. It may have degraded the quality of signal from my HD antenna because channels don't come in as well after connecting these bricks. However, I haven't tried adjusting the antenna so it could be a minor thing. It could also just be a coincidence completely unrelated to these bricks.
8. I have not had them long enough to say anything about durability.

I suspect that there are many factors that could cause some people to have bad experiences with these; the primary one being the wiring in your house. Even in my case there was the weirdness I mentioned in #1. All I can say is that, if they work, they seem to work very well.

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Bob Guzik

Easy and intutive to install - but not when adding additional units

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2018

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Very easy to use. I put one end in the garage and connected it to my Roku. The other end is in the house next to my network switch. I plugged it in and it worked right off the bat. Video streaming in the garage is now reliable and fast. I do have a wireless mesh network, so coverage was not the issue. The hard wired connection is much more reliable.
Update - 2019/04/02 I added 2 more units. It was not as easy. Units kept going off line. I could not add product by using power key. Just got an error message stating unable to add. Gee thanks. I couldn't get more than 2 devices up at one time. Each device was registered but would not play nice with more than 2 plugged in. Some device would go offline. I finally unplugged all devices and plugged them in one at a time. That got all four devices up. Seems stable once they see each other. So I downgraded from 5 to 4 stars.

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Alpine

Works great in my apartment for streaming!

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2018

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Since moving into my apartment and cutting the cord I struggled with what I could do to improve my wireless connection from my office where my router and computer is to my living room. My TV comes from the HDHomerun and worked fantastic on my computer that is connected directly to the router via Ethernet. But the streaming to the living room where I actually watch TV was abysmal with frequent cut outs and poor latency.

My only real solution would of been stop using wireless and running an Ethernet cable out to the living room however since this is an apartment my options are limited and frankly it wouldn't have looked appealing having a cable along the top corner of the hallway.

I looked into the TP-link powerline's and decided that this was the best one for my needs. And, I am very pleased to say it has worked extremely well for the last 3 months. The powerline gives me excellent speeds and it hasn't disconnected since I hooked it up.

I can highly recommend it for streaming purposes as it has worked very well for my needs.

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Charles W. Hayes

Easy to install; much slower than advertised

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2019

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These are advertised as 1000mbit but are much slower. Placing the two units within the same power strip, a best case scenario, they got about 200mbit. With a slightly more realistic (but still highly idealized) scenario, connected walls without a power strip, about 20 feet away, it's about 100mbit. At actual real-world distances, it gets down to 50mbit. AC WiFi was faster in every single test I did except actual 1000mbit LAN.

I'll admit, it was very easy to install and connect. When moving around the home, they synced back up in seconds without re-pairing.

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MWCraft

Extends Internet To Our OutBuilding Where WIFI Wouldn't Reach

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2018

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We have an outbuilding that I converted to a man cave but could not get a good WIFI signal out there using my laptop and our existing equipment. There were a lot of options to accomplish my goal but this worked extremely well. I plugged one adapter into an outlet and the DSL router, then plugged the other into another outlet in the same room, and synched them per the included instructions. It worked like a charm.

Next I used my laptop and the second adapter to connect to the Internet. I moved the two devices to outlets all over the house (upstairs, downstairs) and each one worked. Next, I tried it in the outbuilding and had the same success.

I have not measured upload/download speeds (since it is working well enough for my needs) but it works well for web browsing, streaming Amazon Video, etc. Oh, our house is 70+ years old, with old wiring, and I have no idea how old the outbuilding is.

Before I bought these TP-Link devices, I ran about 50 ft of CAT 6 cable through my basement and garage, drilled a hole through a concrete wall and installed an Ethernet jack to extend the Internet from one room to another. I could have done the same thing in 10 minutes with two of these. Plus, if I ever move, I can take these with me.

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Christopher Tran

Failed after 6 hours

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2023

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This product was good at first. Setting it up was plug and play, and was easy to install the software. Speeds cap around 100 rather than the 2000 mbps advertised but it got my games better ping an not much packet loss. However around the 6 hour mark of its arrival, the device lost connection with the main powerline and I unplugged and plugged it back into the socket which after doing, the powerline wouldn’t show any lights nor made a connection to the main powerline. I have tried everything from rebooting, resetting, and trying to pair it again, however, nothing would work and the lights would still show nothing. I wouldn’t recommend this product. If you are thinking about getting this one, do not. Get the one with the power pass through. Bought and tested that one and had no issues after 6 hours unlike this one.

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VM

Perfect solution for media streaming!

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2020

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We own several PowerLine adapters and use them for streaming media onto Smart TVs, game consoles and expanding WiFi to those hard-to-reach corners of our house. Configuring and expanding a network of PowerLine adapters is as simple as plug-and-play. The first one needs to have a wired connection to a router. Any additional unit is added by simply plugging it in close to a unit that is already networked and pressing the "pair" button on each. It can then be moved to the location that one desires. I have the PowerLine software utility installed on one our computers to monitor its performance. It displays the topology of our network (a fully-connected mesh) and the actual bandwidth between any two nodes. Our effective bandwidth has between 100 Mb/s to 800 Mb/s, which is lower than the advertised 2000 Mb/s, but is more than sufficient for our purposes. We have had a few occasions when the network connectivity is lost, but have been able to re-establish it by unplugging each unit one at a time until the culprit is found, at which point, the network re-established itself. A nice feature addition to the software utility would be being able to reset all the nodes using the software, or at least marking the node that is unresponsive so it can be found easier. The utility does allow each node to be renamed to something that user selects. For instance, "Media Room" or ""Living room", etc. Overall, a good investment that is portable and can be placed where it's needed. They are a bit pricey, but a good home network (WiFi and wired) is becoming a requirement for most users and PowerLine has its legitimate place in that network design. Repeat buyer.

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Lewis H

Fine if you can't hardwire but beware of the performance

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2023

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As with Ethernet Over Power, Internet performance can vary depending on distance between the adapters as well as the outlet being used for other power-needing things. During my time of use before I pulled the trigger on finally hardwiring my connection I actually got worse performance than using a wireless connection. Perhaps it's the distance between me and my router or maybe I just had bad electrical wiring that degraded the performance of the adapters but I only got ~50mpbs up and 5 down compared to the advertised 2000Mbps. All right if you can't get a physical connection straight to your router but the performance may vary case by case.

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Amazon Customer

Plug and play

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2019

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My TV wouldn't take a date/time change, found my adapter for years was dead. Got a really good deal on Prime day I couldn't resist and quantum leaps better than what I've had for year. Plugged them in as per old one, didn't touch a button after connecting the cables to my TV and used a longer cable of my own (monoprice) to the router LAN and it fired up, paired by themselves. I changed my TV wifi to cable with a click filled in the data and bam ret to go. I immediately found that my Fire-stick was way snappier loading and Youtube as well, the dates/time synched and away I go. Oh yeah, the automatically go to holding mode to save energy when not in use and that HAS to be a longer replacement period or need to upgrade with it's 2 gig way over need speed (ha rhyme) Make sure that where you want it to go is on the same house fuse box building wiring and of course no power strips between the wall and it. I thought I was buying the one that didn't take up an outlet with a through put but I guess I didn't see this model, bought the wrong one or was sent a different model.

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