TP-Link TL-PA717 KIT 1-Port Gigabit Powerline Starter Kit
TP-Link TL-PA717 KIT 1-Port Gigabit Powerline Starter Kit, Data Transfer Speed Up to 1000 Mbps, Ideal for HD/3D/4K Video Streaming and Online Gaming(for Wired Only), No Configuration Required
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AV1000 Gigabit Powerline Kit
- HomePlug AV2 Standard – high-speed data transfer rates of up to 1000 Mbps
- Gigabit port
- Up to 300 Meters
| Weight: | 440 g |
| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 5.2 x 5.8 cm; 440 Grams |
| Brand: | TP-Link |
| Model: | TL-PA717 KIT |
| Colour: | White |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | TP-Link |
| Dimensions: | 6.5 x 5.2 x 5.8 cm; 440 Grams |
Not high speed and a bit temperamental to both pair and to get a reliable signal at first. Seemed to settle down after a couple of months and have been sound for over 12 months without any further interventions
This exceeded expectations. I hooked one up in the hallway on the same 4-way extension as the router and the other about 50m down at the bottom of the garden, in the summerhouse (shed). Powered through another 4-way it gives me 33mbps. Superb result and perfect for Zwift etc.
So simple to use. We already have the same set up, with my partner working in a outside home office. Works faultlessly and is needed as we both work from home. The ideal solution for a home network
My connection was dropping during virtual meetings with multiple participants. This power line adapter has solved the problem of the router having to be in a different room and relying on wifi. I didn’t want alternatives that have a strong booster wifi; this one doesn’t come with that. All through the existing power lines, and secure. Fantastic.
Despite what they warn, this works plugged into an extension lead, at least it does for me! This works well giving me an Ethernet port for my ps5 2 floors above the router. 4 stars because while I get 75mb/s from the router, I only get 42mb/s with this. Much better than over wifi and does the job.
I have 6 of these units and find them to be great. I use them to control lights and power supplies for battery charging via solar panels all over my property. They have never let me down and the schedule and timer features, from within their APP, are a boon.
I have always been a bit sceptical about theses mains-based network devices.
I was concerned that they may be susceptible to interference, especially when motors are being used nearby.
However, I needed to get a WiFi signal to some IP cameras at the bottom of the garden.
A WiFi extender I was using for this, located inside the house often lost the signal and I got intermittent pictures.
I decided to take the plunge and bought this starter kit.
I plugged one unit into the spur, inside the house feeding the garden shed.
I connected this device to my network switch.
I plugged the other unit into an electrical socket in the garden shed.
I then plugged my WiFi extender into another electrical socket in the garden shed then linked the ethernet sockets on the WiFi extender and the device using the supplied cable.
Result – the WiFi signal is now much closer to the cameras – perfect operation.
My problem was that my router was downstairs, and my gaming PC was upstairs and the WiFi wasn’t great at all.
Set this gizmo up in less than 5 minutes and now I get the same speed to my PC as i would if i plugged it directly into the router.
Would absolutely recommend.
These were recommended to me by my work colleagues and so far so amazing.
My wifi connection at home was quite slow and video calls, while working remotely, would often be delayed or the call would drop due to the slow wifi.
With these plugs, my Internet connection is stronger, faster and clearer. The instructions on how to assemble was very easy to follow.
I’ve been telling my friends about these and would happily recommend.
What a great product. was not sure if it would work or not but it sure does. You must ensure that it is plugged into a wall socket and not into an extension lead for it to work correctly. Easy set up – just plug both units in, add the supplied cables, turn them on and hold the front button for a second on each unit.
This works so well as I play video games a lot and my ping is mever the best this brought my ping from 40+ to 0 it’s amazing. I definitely wasn’t expecting I for it to work this good
This was so simple to set up, it literally took less than 10 minutes. We had been quoted a few hundred quid to get an internet connection from our house to our garden office. This worked like magic…even though the broadband hub is at the other end of the building.
So impressed and totally delighted…thank you TP Link.
Used these to get intenet connected to my security camera DVR in the loft. Really easy to set up, just push the link button on each of the units and your up an running.
Not sure what sorcery this tech uses for putting Internet through your electrical wiring but it works really well. Great for dodgy wifi spots in the home, garden rooms etc
Got me away from using WiFi at work as WiFi was always dropping in and out these are a game changer and also used for the fire stick at night I highly recommend these if your power sockets are all on the same system.
It worked and provides a much better connection than my WiFi previously did. I did find that I couldn’t directly use it with my homes router but that’s probably because of the wiring in my house. Worked when I used it from a different room to my destination room.
Wasn’t sure about these, wether they’d work, but I now have a happy teen in the upstairs bedroom. Was considering running a Ethernet cable through the house so he can game without loss! Anyone with kids will know what happens when signal drops half way through a game!
These are both plugged into an extension cord top and bottom which isn’t recommended as signal could get loss but they’re working fine and giving him the maximum internet speed so yes I’d recommend these fully.
Needed a way of connecting my TV in the spare room via ethernet as the internal wi fi card not working, used to plug in via the two routers, but new broadband only has one router , so these do the job , streaming on TV is ok and no buffering, would recommend
I had a number of older powerline adapters and the Internet download speeds were through the floor with a ridiculously low transfer rate of up to 16mb per sec at best. Considering I was on a 200mb plan that was rubbish. It used to be better, but never more than 50.
I had assumed it was due to the older electrical cables in out house degrading the rate.
I decided to take a punt on these ones and am so glad I did. I’m now getting 120mb speeds. Much happier now.
My BT Hub was showing 70mbps at the router, but I was only getting 33mbps over my old Powerline setup. I swapped to this TP-Link setup and I now get full router speed across the wired network. Very happy!
My house has a really unreliable WiFi signal. I used this to connect to a WiFi booster at the opposite end of the house. Now I can even use WiFi in the garde
We already owned a set of TP-Link Mesh units but I was forever having to reset them, particularly for the TV which is two thick-walled rooms away from our router. These seem to work well, we are using them in conjunction with the Mesh units, no problems so far, better signal to the TV for certain.
I got this as the WiFi modual on my TV stopped working. This product does what it says on the box and I find it faster and more stable than WiFi. I know it will last for years and would be great for cctv or any product that you need a good hard wire/wireless connection.
Easy to setup rtfm and your away.
Had the older to link units but speed was becoming an issue for gaming. Wifi was also too slow. This now gives me maximum speed via my sockets but also still connects to my older units to allow other wired connections to run all be it at the lower speed
Does the job getting internet into the man cave but drops the signal now and again which can be frustrating but after a quick off & on again it’s fine
Would buy again if being honest.
I needed this for a room which wifi was barely there and now I can work from that room.
Bought these to upgrade an existing powerline link over a little more than 100 metres of 4mm three core buried cable to a cabin at the end of the garden. This was being served by a pair of Netgear XAV2001 bought in 2010 and was still going strong (and still are on another outbuilding!).
Scenario is simple, power socket connected to same breaker in distribution board in house, across the garden to distribution board in cabin and on to a ring main in cabin.
All paired devices have a different network name so becomes a point to point link.
The XAV2001 Av200 devices held a steady, reliable connection and advertised 180mbit/sec “headline” link rate. Using a laptop at the cabin end and a fast pc at the house end (all 1000mbit/sec connections except for the XAV2001 which has a 100mbit/sec port) actual throughput transferring a <>1gB file was 37mbit/sec (both ways).
These new AV1000 devices also hold a steady, reliable connection and are advertising 403mbit/sec “headline” link rate. Completing an identical test, same laptop, PC and file (bearing in mind everything is now 1000mbit/sec) the actual throughput was 113mbit/sec – 3 times faster!
The units are not much bigger than a UK plug, get no hotter than the old Netgear units and if you download the software from TP Link are easily secured.
One star lost as you should be more firmly encouraged to secure your connection with the software and not just pair them especially if you have an electrickery car charger.
Highly recommended and have exceeded my expectations (I expected 60mbit/sec).
The basic simplest 600Mbps TP-Link PA4010 Powerline kit works a treat; we didn’t need pass through sockets, nor extra WiFi, nor gigabit speeds, just enough bandwidth for a POE camera. Initially I plugged my quartet into adjacent sockets, let them synchronise with the pairing buttons, and then moved the distant ones to their new homes and it all just worked. So simple. Wonderful. Secure. And WiFi can be OFF.
If one wishes to make the system more secure than the default, or to change the names or passwords on each unit, or to add more units into the power line, or to change the priority mapping, or to monitor QoS (Quality of Service) etc, then one can download a full pdf User Manual and a Management Utility that can run on the PC. This also allows one to upgrade the firmware etc in the devices when TP-Link produce updates.
I wanted to connect an IP security camera on a garden shed to the network, but the wifi from the house was not good enough, too far away, and adding another Ethernet cable was going to be a nightmare. Hence this network extender to add to an existing pair.
It matters that they are on the same ring main because the signal does not seem to pass at a high enough speed through the MCBs in the fuse box. So the initial units are using normal 13A sockets on the downstairs ring main and the last is on the spur in the shed, full speed, no problems even though the shed is about sixty feet of wire away.
I’ve not noticed any interference on any other equipment, nor has anything else interfered with this net connection. It was supplied with some microscopic paper instructions, but these are not really necessary as the pairing by pressing the button simply just worked as expected. There are three LEDs on each unit; power, Powerline, Ethernet, and the steady on or off or blinking and colours are intuitive.
Note that if a standard network switch is added to a distant Ethernet extender port then the power saving mode will not happen, because even if nothing is happening on the switch it will still be polled by the router and will keep the Powerline awake.
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.
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 tried 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). Then, I used the ‘WPS’ method to clone the BT Hub SSID and password 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.