TP-Link TL-PA7027P KIT AV1000 2-Port Gigabit Passthrough
TP-Link TL-PA7027P KIT AV1000 2-Port Gigabit Passthrough Powerline Starter Kit, Data Transfer Speed Up to 1000 Mbps, Ideal for HD/3D/4K Video Streaming and Online Gaming, 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: | 580 g |
| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 5.8 x 7.2 cm; 580 Grams |
| Brand: | TP-Link |
| Model: | TL-PA7027P KIT |
| Colour: | White |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | TP-Link |
| Dimensions: | 9.5 x 5.8 x 7.2 cm; 580 Grams |
50/60’s built house with every interior wall solid breeze block/brick. No Wi-Fi signal gets through without lagging or glitching. Use several boosters as have 2 annoyed gamers in the house. They use 1 each and have 2 happy gamers. No glitching or lagging.
This has solved my wifi problems.
The router is at the bottom of my house but my “office” is in the loft (don’t ask…) which meant that my wifi connection was intermittent. The TP PowerLink has solved all my connectivity issues. Brilliant!
Does exactly what it says on the box. Very easy to add to existing products – great price point. This is the second set I have bought. Would buy again.
Very easy to use, just plug and use really.
No problem with the speed and connection neither. Bought them to work from home for months and had no issue at all so fa
Our Sky router wifi is hopeless i was getting between 1 and 25 mbs all over the house. With this i am now getting a constant 47mbs for my laptop. I plugged it into an extension too! No more lag for work zoom calls.
I bought these to replace some old Belkin ones after I upgraded my broadband to 500mbps. They are definitely a lot faster and have the added bonus of being able to plug in to so your not losing a space. Definitely recommend.
I have used Tp-Link devices for many years to avoid installing network cables all over the house. These units with through connections for 13 amp plugs are ideal for space saving.
They don’t run at full speed but they run at a fast enough speed that’s good enough. One is plugged in at the front of the house, the other is plugged in upstairs at the back. Reasonably new build house (~2003) with modern wiring.
It’s connected to an Ethernet switch at the remote end and straight into router on the other end. 6 devices in total, works well.
It’s been stable, hasn’t dropped out and have no complaints.
These work so well for my house… Before I sorted out the Wi-Fi, these were the only way I could get an internet connection in the far reaches of the house. The kids now use them for their gaming PCs with zero issues.
Bonus my house is awful for WiFi and instead of losing needed plugs I can still plug in using these I pick low powered items but probably does not matte
Have used this for a few months now and it works like a trea
Love the idea of this. Enables you to utilise your ethernet port instead of wireless. I had an item which was 2.4ghz wireless and wasn’t running at all well. Bought this and by using the ethernet port instantly tripled the speed. Okay due to living in an old house with old wiring the speed isn’t as fast as a direct ethernet connection to the router but it did the job successfully. In a newer house, with newer wiring, it’d probably work brilliantly. Definitely worth a purchase.
I love these. After looking at mesh Wi-Fi, I decided that I preferred the speed & stability of a wired connection. By using these powerline adapters I am able to receive full speed internet everywhere in the house. I now have a wired connection in my home office, which is proving to be much faster & more reliable than using Wi-Fi. This saves the effort of running cables everywhere, and as with all TP Link products, it was easy to setup and use.
This was a recommendation from Apple Support and is the second one, which I have bought, this time for a friend. The first, which I use myself and have had for well over a year. is totally reliable and performs flawlessly.
I had a set of older TP-Link branded Powerline adaptors, (TL-PA7020P) that helped me transfer my outdoor camera stream to my switch indoors, however, one day they just stopped working. I tried a full reset and various other things including firmware updates but nothing worked. They would connect in the house when plugged into the same double socket, but as soon as they were apart, the signal would just drop and the LED would go red.
Why do I say this? Well, in case you have had the same issue as me frankly. These things seem to work for a finite time and then begin to break down with flaky connections.
Enter this set. I just needed a fairly basic set of powerline adapters and settled on these. They were, after all, just bought to see if a new set would work, or whether it was something to do with my electrics (unlikely as the house is less than 4 years old). I plugged the first adapter in the garage and plugged the ethernet cable in from my EAP-110 outdoor antenna, two LEDs came on. I went indoors and plugged in the second adapter to the socket near my switch, plugged the Ethernet cable in and two LEDs came on. I waited 60 seconds, nothing, no third LED to show they were linked.
All I can think of is these things take several minutes to find each other as, just as I was giving up, the third LED lit up!
I checked, and all the cameras worked fine, a lot faster than they were before as I was using a TP-Link Deco X55 in the garage to try to get the signal through, it was only reading one bar so not a great signal. So I’m very pleased as I don’t need to purchase the Outdoor X50 Deco now (an expensive test that might not have worked so well).
So it seems these things do have a finite life, but I would rather buy a set of these every two years than faff about with trying to get a wi-fi signal into what is effectively a Faraday cage (a house with foil lined insulation throughout). And if you had a set of these that suddenly packed up, buy a new set, you might just solve the problem.
Much more stable connection but not as fast as I was hoping, could be to do with ethernet cables provided. Overall a decent produc
We needed to hardwire our security camera recording box to our internet to be able to view the images on our phones. As the hub was in the dining room, and the system in our bedroom that would have meant wires all up the stairs. These little boxes have made the job so easy. Plug in, user Ethernet cable provided to link to your devices, press a button to pair them, and hey presto, job done
This is an upgrade from an older version that couldn’t handle sufficient data. Now I get uninterrupted video streaming, via the mains wiring, to my TV. Excellent product, highly recommended.
I’ve got quite a few of these and they work well. TP-Link offer good value equipment that invariably works well.
These are easy to set up and manage via the Tapo App
This Broadband extender is soooo simple to use! It’s ideal for anyone in larger or older houses where wifi signals can be a problem. These passthrough plugs allow you to set up a secure (it uses 128bit AES encryption) without having loose wires trailing all over the place. You simply use the wires already in your walls!
Set up is simple. You just plug the first passthrough into your wall socket, connect it to one of the LAN ports on your router, install the second plug wherever you want your second broadband access (you don’t need to connect this one to the router!) then just press the pairing button on both plugs (you have two minutes to press the second one after you press the button on the first plug) to create the secure network. It doesn’t matter which plug you start with when pairing them. It’s that simple!
fantastic customer support from Glen Ford at TP link.
had a funny problem adding an extender and even though i know IT and tech, needed some help and Glen was brilliant. patient and calm and solved it
thank you
I like them there great in an old house like me with thick brick walls. Where the WiFi signal struggles. I can now run my PC & printer upstairs. With no problems. Top tip. Plug them into the main plug socket at the wall then plug everything else in an extension lead, for the best strength. If you do it the other way you will half the straight before you even start. I’ve 500mbs from my supplier and I now get 500mbs upstairs too. Such a difference.
Bought these to get my desktop PC off the Wifi in my house and give it a wired connection without the hassle of remove floorboard etc to run an Ethernet cable to from downstairs to my desktop PC. The set up was literally plug and play, plugged one in downstairs next to the hub with a connection to the ethernet on there and then connected one upstairs via a 5m network cable to the PC (limited sockets in this room) and the connection speed and ping is exactly the same as connecting via ethernet directly to the router on a PC in the same room as the router. The electric cabling in this house is of unknown age but is red and black wires so definitely before 2006 and 1998 when we moved into the property and I wasn’t expecting much from that but it works perfectly.
I bought this kit to test if I can improve the speed of local file transfer between my laptop and NAS. As you can see from the images, the tpPLC utility reports a 459 Mbps speed between the two powerline adapters. In reality, that was 92/128 Mbps (upload/download). The powerline adapters are plugged into the wall socket and this is a newly built house (2020), so the electrical wiring is up to current standards. One of the adapters is plugged in downstairs, and the other one is upstairs. The approximate distance between the two is 10-15 m.
In comparison, I get 150/317 Mbps (upload/download) transfer speed via wifi (Orbi RBR50 + satellite).
Conclusion:
This is a fairly cheap, easy-to-use product, however, a mesh wifi system would probably be a better choice for most people, provided that the router and the nodes can reach the area you want to cover. For hard-to-reach areas, this product could be the only viable option to extend the network and provide internet connectivity.
But our internet hub was the other side of the room, so running a cable could be done under the rug, but we removed that for safety trip hazard reasons. I tried a wireless access point which worked partially but the set top box seemed to forget the IP settings for this device.
So a family member had used these power line ethernet plugs in their home and I thought I’d also give it a try, I found this TP-link model on amazon and found most reviews encouraging so ordered them. And I was very pleased.
Very easy to set up, and the connection is stable and reliable. Recommended.
These use your power grid as ethernet extensions so you can direct connect without the need for wifi which is less stable. You don’t need the quick install guide as these are pretty much plug and play devices. The Ethernet cables provided are a bit on the short side though as you need to plug directly into sockets rather than using extensions or power bars. For this reason, the passthrough version is definitely advisable over the regular even if you think you have plenty of socket space via bars but if you already own longer Ethernet cables this is not an issue.
The connection on these is very stable and I dont get any disconnects or drop outs. Ping time is very stable. So much better than what I could do with Wi-Fi so perfect for gaming.
These are quite compact devices considering they have a passthrough plug and they are well priced. However I have used better performing Zyxel devices in the past that are no longer available and were twice the price. The Zyxel ones also failed after a couple of years, to early to tell reliability of these.
They also have a power saving mode which is enabled by default, they go into standby when the device connected to them goes offline after some time. This is working great for me but can be disabled if required using the TP link app.
I’d done lots of research and came to the conclusion that this product would solve the problem. I also had to research how to install it – being a complete technophobe, I needed all the help I could get!
When it arrived (next day) I went ahead and installed it as follows:
Plug in one of the units (doesn’t matter which one, they’re both the same) near the router and connect the unit to the router with the cable provided. (If you’re short of sockets, then plug the unit into the wall first and then plug your router into the unit.)
Plug in the other unit near the TV and connect the unit to the TV with the other cable provided.
Press the pair button for 1 second on the first unit and press the pair button on the second unit for 1 second.
When the lights have stopped flashing on both units, it means they’ve paired. (This took about a couple of seconds for me).
I then switched the TV on to check the settings, to make sure the TV was using the wired connection (and not wifi). It was, it had found it without me having to do anything.
The best part of the process was putting it to the test – that meant spending an afternoon watching TV. . I’m pleased to report there was no buffering at all, in about 2 hours’ worth of streaming.
Would definitely recommend this product – a) because it works! and b) because it’s easy to set up.
Update 22.2.22: I tried this at a friends (significantly newer) house with 250meg broadband and got 250meg at 2m, 80meg at 5m and 40meg at 20m (out in the garage was the furthest socket).
In short, it does the job and solved my poor connection and lag issues.
My room is directly above the living room which is where the router sits. My brother and I play games both casually and competitively online. His room is right next to mine yet somehow gets perfect connection whereas I barely even get a bar of signal wirelessly. I’ve had to rely on a WiFi extender to boost my connection, but even then I still lag consistently. A lot of my friends are from America so it makes it really difficult to enjoy gaming sessions with them while being in the UK and experiencing terrible lag. Even playing on EU servers I still have 100 ping. I eventually gave up and decided to go wire up my PC to the router with an ethernet cable, after having disconnected 20 times in 5 minutes while I was playing VRChat on my VR headset. My parents did not like the look of the wire going through the house and said it was “ugly” so I tried to look for other solutions, without having to go back to the WiFi extender.
I was recommended a similar product to this, probably the one without the passthrough and gigaport, but I didn’t want to sacrifice a socket hence getting the passthrough and I was advised that gigaport was better due to it being able to reach up to 1000mbps instead of 600mbps.I probably didn’t need it and could have saved 8 on it because when I was directly wired from PC to router, I would get 110mbps on an internet speed test, but with this product now I get about 52mbps, so half. I can’t confirm if it will really provide you for up to 1000mbps since I’m only getting half of what I had, so I gave it 4 stars for WiFi signal but 5 stars for everything else since it is super easy to set up, just plug and play after pairing the two adapters.
Another thing, I bought separate CAT 7 ethernet cables to replace the the CAT 5 ones provided since the CAT 7s have higher speeds up to 10000mbps, not sure if anything would be affected if I switched to the CAT 5s.
Overall, I’m not so bothered about getting half of the mbps I had when wired since I’m no longer lagging when playing on servers in a different country, I don’t think I have even seen the latency sign come up so I honestly have no complaints. This is honestly one of the very few products I feel that is actually so worth buying, I recommend it.
Having read multiple reviews on all the available adapters I decided to give these TP-Line adapters a go.
Setting up is very straight forward. Do the following: –
Plug in both adapters to sockets close to each other (to start with)
Press the pair button on one of the adapters for 1 second. The green LED indicator starts flashing
Next, within 2 minutes press the pair button on the 2nd adapter. The green LED indicator starts flashing on this too.
When both LED’s on both adapters stop flashing the units are paired. (This can take up to 2 minutes)
After the units have paired: –
Plug in one of the adapters by your internet router and connect the cable from the adapter into the back of your router.
Place the 2nd adapter where you require a internet connection and connect the CAT lead to your device.
Job done. Remember to turn off the WiFi on your laptop / connected device.
Adding additional adapters is easy: –
Plug in the new adapter and press the pair button. The green LED indicator starts flashing
On one of the other adapters (already part of the network) press the pair button within 2 minutes. The green LED indicator starts flashing.
When both LED’s on both adapters stop flashing the new adapter unit has paired with the other network adapters. Easy
After reading that the adapters are only supplied with Cat 5 cables (max speed 100Mbps) instead of enhanced Cat 5e (max speed 1000Mbps) the full throughput cannot be achieved without purchasing some better CAT leads. I opted for some CAT6 leads just because they slightly better quality than CAT5e stopping cross-talk (noise interference from other cables)
So far these powerline adapters seem to have done the job. Very happy with these internet passthrough powerline adapters.
I would have given 5 stars if the kit had better CAT cable.